On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 11:52:40PM -0600, Erick Kinnee wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 11:36:08PM -0600, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote: > > >>>>> "JC" == Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> writes: > > 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. > > > > -Larry > > People, > Get a grip. This needed to happen, it is best that it did happen early > in potato's life. Perl is going to be hard too. Fair warning WAS given. > If you don't think so you need to read -devel a bit more, and maybe IRC > a bit. While generally a good thing, irc for much of the world is unreasonable. > The biggest casualties seem to be C++ apps. [..] This was a known thing too, discussed on this list. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- acme-cannon (3.1415) unstable; urgency=low * Added safety to prevent operator dismemberment, closes: bug #98765, bug #98713, #98714. * Added manpage. closes: #98725. -- Wile E. Coyote <genius@debian.org> Sun, 31 Jan 1999 07:49:57 -0600
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