Re: Slink to potato upgrade
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 09:22:46AM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote:
> > The vast, vast majority of programs that break are those that are poorly
> > written and make use of internal libc symbols.
>
> That's no excuse. Binary compatibility is binary compatibility. If we're
> going to stop supporting poorly written code, we might as well give up now.
Did we change sonames when a new malloc code was introduced into libc5? This
broke an awful lot of programs despite binary compatibility. IMO it is not a
good idea to change standard stuff like the soname just because we have
poorly written programs in out dist.
In this case I'd prefer a wrapper that makes sure the old glibc2.0 is used
instead of the new one.
Michael
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