# The versionnumber is extracted from apt-inst/makefile - see also there.
LIBAPTINST_MAJOR=$(shell egrep '^MAJOR=' $(BASE)/apt-inst/makefile |cut -d '=' -f 2)
LIBAPTINST_MINOR=$(shell egrep '^MINOR=' $(BASE)/apt-inst/makefile |cut -d '=' -f 2)
+
+# FIXME: In previous releases this lovely variable includes
+# the detected libc and libdc++ version. As this is bogus we
+# want to drop this, but this a ABI break.
+# And we don't want to do this now. So we hardcode a value here,
+# and drop it later on (hopefully as fast as possible).
+LIBEXT=-libc6.9-6