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On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 17:51 -0400, Manuel Bessler wrote:
> =========================================
> python populate_packages_prepend () {
>         if d.getVar('DEBIAN_NAMES', True):
>                 bpn = d.getVar('BPN', True)
>                 d.setVar('PKG_'+bpn, 'libc6')
> ...
> =========================================

That particular piece of code does seem bogus for many reasons and
should probably go away.  I think it is a historical relic.

But, that said, libc-common.bbclass is poorly named and is really
specific to (e)glibc.  You don't want to use that for uclibc.

p.