Re: policy for upgrading libraries to hamm

[Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>]

On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, James A.Treacy wrote:

> What exactly is the policy for upgrading libraries to hamm?

debian/doc/package-developer/libc6-migration.text contains some important
guidelines.

> In particular is there anything requiring compiling libc5 based
> libraries? 

(I'm not sure I understand the question.) No, noone is required to release
libc5 versions for "bo-unstable", but everyone is free to do so.

> Also, when a libc5 library is dropped is it ok to drop the g from the
> package name (using the appropriate conflicts to conflict with the libc5
> versions)? 

I don't think we've discussed this already, but I guess it will not be
worth the troubles dropping the `g'.


Thanks,

Chris

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