Debian bug report logs - #1797
ELF conversion

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From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
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Package: dpkg
Version: ?

David Engel writes ("Re: ELF conversion"):
> I moved these first few parts to the beginning to get them out of the
> way since they're really side issues.

This is private email to you.  I've CC'd it to debian-bugs, and set
the `quiet' flag.

> > >  I suppose this explains why
> > > dpkg doesn't squawk at me when I temporarily downgrade ld.so for
> > > testing when I know the elf-* packages explciitly require a
> > > semi-current version.
> > 
> > I think your dependencies must say something other than what you think
> > they say, or possibly you're running dpkg with the `allow breaking of
> > depending packages' flag.  dselect sets this flag by default, because
> > otherwise certain kinds of changes to package arrangements would be
> > impossible.
> 
> Here are two entries from my /var/lib/dpkg/status file.  I can switch
> back and forth between ldso-1.6.7 and ldso-1.7.10 without any warnings
> from dpkg by simply running 'dpkg -i filename'.  What am I missing?

Nothing, as far as I can see.  I have everything here that you have,
except ld.so 1.6.7.  Can you send me a copy of the .deb file, please ?
I'll try to reproduce the problem.

Just for reference, I have:
eb9a54d375ded510ba266835a2eacefc  ld.so-1.7.10-1.deb
68209cd89ab8db3b9c5303b86274f301  elf-libc-5.2.7-1.deb

Will jumping back and forth between ELF libc's and various ld.so's and
things break anything except my ELF compiler ?  I'd rather not render
my system generally unuseable if I can help it :-).

What version of dpkg do you have ?

Ian.