Re: Bits from the RM
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 04:49:25PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
>
> > Also make sure to include some leg room if you depend on packages that
> > have a tendency to be buggy (glibc, for example).
>
> The new glibc has already stalled the progress into testing of a large
> number of packages, and the number of RC bugs still seems to be going up.
> How are we going to manage to produce a release in 6 months the face of this
> obstacle? The last time there was this sort of breakage, it took many
> months just to get glibc itself it sorted out.
Will we some day consider seriously the idea of autobuilders compiling
against testing those packages which do not need libraries from
unstable to be built?
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