On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:34:19AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:41:45PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 03:07:47PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 07:46:20PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > > > Debian's support for so many arches slows down development in other
> > > > areas as well. For example, getting gcc-3.2 working on all arches has [...]
> >
> > > the key issue. We have one outstanding issue with gcc-3.2 at the moment,
> > > which is that cmath on sparc doesn't work.
> >
> > Something is seriously wrong, if a single bug that affects a single
> > arch can stop everyone else from forward.
>
> You obviously didn't read all of aj's message. How about you postpone
> your bitching along these lines until you've helped fix all the RC bugs
> in gcc 3.2 and glibc 2.3.1 that *do* affect i386?
Not to defend Riku here, but I would point out that a mechanism to
shunt very buggy packages into experimental and replace them with a
previous known working version from snapshots would be a very useful
thing, and would have severely cut back on the amount of damage caused
by things like the recent libc6 transition.
And no, I don't have the skill or the time to write such a
mechanism. Please don't suggest that that removes any validity or
value of the suggestion.
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