At Thu, 31 Oct 2002 23:54:10 -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > > BTW, what does "12" of libc12 mean? > > I will be happy to name the binaries netbsd-libc12 when the current libc6 > becomes gnu-libc6 or glibc6; certainly the source package name might > change, but since there are exactly 0 platforms which will ever have both > GNU libc and NetBSD libc (they are exclusive and must be separated by arch, > since binaries depend on one or other other), it is simpler to have the > binary packages named consistantly. FreeBSD's is libc4, though they are > using GNU libc instead; the Hurd has libc0.2 as their package name.
ITP should state the name of the source package. Hence, I think your ITP should have said something like, "source package netbsd-libc, which builds a binary package libc12." regards, junichi