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Re: Freeze Goals -- WAS: September release



At 03:17 PM 7/17/99 +0200, J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 09:10:20 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
>> Any estimate of how many packages will break with the upgrade?
>
>The kernel, if one compiles it without reading the upgrade notes; no other
>breakage is known or expected.

That's not entirely true. The kernel (all versions) is just one known
example of aliasing problems. Any program could potentially have these
problems - including GCC itself, an example of which Linus Torvalds pointed
when complaining about the change. (It has been fixed.)


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