Comment 10 for bug 9860

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 23:03:53 +0100
From: Eric Valette <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#279423: libc6-dev: totally incoherent pthread related includes
 files for dynamic linking

Eric Valette wrote:

>> In fact most distributions do exactly the same as
>> Debian with their default headers and dynamic libraries.
>=20
>=20
> So because other distrib mades bad choices, Debian must follow. Good=20
> point. I will check and report if this is even true latter on.=20

That is not even true :
 1)=20
<http://www.suse.com/en/private/products/suse_linux/prof/packages_profess=
ional/glibc-devel.html>

Suze provides both threading in in glibc-devel with I think is coherent.

 2) Fedora does the same =A3%=B5 than debian

 3) Mandrake provide a nptl-devel.

So no, your statement is not even true and again, it is not because=20
other distrib make questionnable decision that you should follow...

-- eric