Re: glibc very old
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:05:14AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Is there a reason that Debian has such an old version of glibc, even in
> unstable?
> The current upstream version of glibc seems to be 2.16, whereas Debian
> has 2.13 (which is circa 2011-02).
The basic reasons are that 2.14 was a dud of an upstream release, and no one
found the time after 2.15 came out to get it into shape for all our ports
before the freeze.
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