Re: glibc 2.1 and potato

[Hartmut Koptein <koptein@et-inf.fho-emden.de>]

> >> In the future, I believe that potato packages should be, IF POSSIBLE,
> >> installable on slink. I do not wish to force users to upgrade 
> >> their libc6 (an
> >> important move) just to install a package which I compiled on potato
> >> (specially for scientific programs which do not use the libc 
> >> tricks in depth).
> >
> >Unfortunately, stdin/stdout/stderr have changed.  So every new program
> >will depend on the new libc.
> 
> That and new programs will need the GLIBC_2.1 versioned symbols.

Let us test it!  One i386 machine (Espy: yours??) with egcs and glibc-2.1
and compiling all sources (2 days for main and a fast machine).
After this uploading to Incoming/glibc-2.1.i386 ? 

This makes it easier to switch faster on debian-2.2! (is may/june the next
release? :-))


Greetings,


   Hartmut