Debian bug report logs - #1797 ELF conversion Package: dpkg ; Reported by: Ian Jackson . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk!ian Fri Nov 3 13:10:25 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0tBTNY-0005EIC; Fri, 3 Nov 95 13:10 PST Received: from artemis.chu.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA23374 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Fri, 3 Nov 1995 13:09:53 -0800 Received: from chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk by artemis.chu.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #33) id m0tBTMu-0007qwC; Fri, 3 Nov 95 21:09 GMT Received: by chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk id m0tBTMh-0002aNC (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Fri, 3 Nov 95 21:09 GMT Message-Id: Date: Fri, 3 Nov 95 21:09 GMT From: Ian Jackson To: david@elo.ods.com (David Engel) Cc: Debian bugs submission address X-Debian-Pr: quiet Subject: Re: ELF conversion In-Reply-To: References: 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Ian Jackson : New bug report received and filed, but not forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 21:43:02 GMT Fri 03 Nov