RE: 3.0 tests depend on libc >= 2.3.5?

>Hi Andrew,
>
>I think what Jeff is referring to in particular is the fact 
>that the test 
>RPMs have a package dependency on "libc >= 2.3.5" and when 
>alien converts 
>this dependency it can't be fulfilled on Debian 3.1 (sarge) 
>and so can't be 
>installed. I don't know if this dependency is being generated 
>by the rpm 
>build based on the build environment or if it's hard-coded in 
>the rpm spec 
>file.
>
>Would it be acceptable to remove this package dependency to 
>allow runtime implementations not yet using that version of
>the canonical implementation (or using another implementation,
>we don't mandate glibc after all) to be able to install? 
>That seems like the correct thing to do.

I don't see any sign the packages require that:

$ rpm -qp --requires lsb-runtime-test-3.0.0-4.i486.rpm
lsb-tet3-lite
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1