On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Graham Pople wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Scott Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, pgarcia wrote: > > > >> Could someone please summarize the main changes in the upcoming Debian 2.0 > >> release? Does it include the filesystem changes in FHS 2.0? I noticed > >> that on the ftp doc/package-developer/ directory, the old fsstnd-1.2 files > >> are still there. > > > >The main feature of Debian 2.0 will be libc6 (aka glibc2). We support > >compilation for both the old libc5 and the new libc6, as well as all old > >packages in a seamless manner. We are still based on FSSTND 1.2, we plan > >to move to FHS 2.0 in Debian 2.1 > > > Does that mean that all the old packages will be updated to use libc6 > instead of libc6? I think they'll incompatible on my mahcine for some > reason.
All of the programs in hamm will be linked to libc6. libc5-linked programs should still work without changes. There are problems with some older X programs being linked wierdly, but they can be patched by a script that should be available in the lists archives (probably debian-devel). -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
