On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 11:36:08PM -0600, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote:
> JC> Fair warning WAS given.
>
> Depends on what you consider "fair warning". There was discussion of
> potato containing glibc2.1 but no flag that it was happening, and if
> you're paranoid hold off a bit. It was also stated in the debian-devel
> discussion that the upgrade would not break any binaries compiled with
> glibc2.0, which has shown to be false, and is even documented in the
> FAQ shipped with the new libc package. The breakages so far are
> mostly minor, depending on what's relevant to you. I'm just saying it
> could have been handled more gracefully.
I think it was handled as gracefully as reasonably possible. There was
advanced notice. As advanced as 2 months before it happened and as near
as 2 days just to remind people that it was actually going to happen just
after slink's release.
I never once heard "nothing will break". I heard many times "the only
stuff that is likely to break seriously is stuff linked with libstdc++"
which was mostly true. Small things breaking (and that's all that has
broken--small things) is part of software development. It was not
totally unforseen but the only way to really find out what breaks is to
just upgrade and see.
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Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer
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