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Re: Bits from the RM



On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 03:52:42PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> 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?

Do you foresee any reasons why using experimental for new library
uploads wouldn't serve the same purpose?

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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