Re: Slink to potato upgrade
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Joel Klecker wrote:
> At 11:12 +0000 1999-03-22, Jules Bean wrote:
> >Joel, will you *please* give some technical arguments, and stop jumping on
> >your authority as package developer.
>
> /usr/doc/libc6/FAQ.gz
>
> >I respect you greatly for packaging what is certainly one of the most
> >important, and most troublesome, packages in Debian. However, I'd like to
> >know what to do about:
> >
> >libglib
> >elm
>
> No one has figured out *why* elm breaks (and if it is even glibc's
> fault). No one even bothered to tell me glib broke or in what manner
> it broke.
*grin*
Fair play.
A libglib which has been compiled under libc2.0 will then segfault any
program which is linked to it with libc2.1, if the program calls g_print.
Apparently it's something to do with va_args, I haven't looked into it in
detail.
Jules
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