Bob Tracy wrote:
I'm really just shooting for the "out of box" experience with Etch on Alphs to be "stable".I reported elsewhere that version 2.3.999.2-11 (glibc-2.4) seems to work fine, and Uwe reported that libc6.1_2.5-1_alpha.deb is working also. If for some reason people require glibc-2.3, they will have to retrieve the sources for the stable package and apply the appropriate workaround patch (for the defunct processes issue).
I know (and use) the newer versions of glibc - I would just rather that people *choose* to use a newer version instead of being required to get something from testing or unstable.
(and some organizations might have a "stable"-only policy). ...tom