Re: testing installation bot just plain doesn't like XFree86

[Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>]

>What is really surprising is that packages built against a buggy libc
>wait for a new libc before being installed in testing. Should not
>those packages be rebuilt against the fixed libc as well?

It's pretty rare for a bug in libc (or any shared library, for that matter) to 
have build-time consequences.  You certainly don't want to rebuild everything 
whenever libc changes; even if you only cared about RC bugs, you could be 
talking about huge amounts of wasted work.

p.