Bug#325600: closed by Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> (Closing bugs fixed in unreleased version 2.4-1 of the glibc)

[Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 03:30:59PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Tom Evans a écrit :
> > The patch that you didn't know existed was included with the bug report..
> 
> It was not clearly marked as a patch, moreover it looks more like a bad
> workaround than a fix. I still have some resistance to apply it for etch r1.

  and it seems the same holds for steve:
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2007/04/msg00016.html

> And remember we are humans, we already have problems handling all the
> bugs that are coming every days, so we don't have time to read in
> details all the bugs that sit in the BTS.

> > I am trying the patch that Aurelien suggested - it does look like a 
> > better solution - I was going to try to decode the inline assembler in 
> > that area this weekend to see if there was a mistake.
> > 
> > There have been offers on the debian-alpha list for Alpha machine 
> > donations - some of them decent enough machines.
> > 
> > What needs to happen for a machine to be useful for developers?

  I for one don't have the money to host an alpha machine, nor the space
at home. Do you ? Then I'd be glad to use an alpha machine you would
host for us.

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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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