Re: Glibc 2.3
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 12:08:19AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 08:49:21PM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> > Drepper posted an email[0] yesterday indicating that 2.3 is imminent.
> > To help with this transition, I will cook up some i386 packages based
> > on 2.3 for some initial QA.
> >
> > Should I upload them to experimental, or should I just post them in
> > people.d.o/~jbailey/?
> >
> > Note that I already know that hurd-i386 won't be able to run the 2.3
> > packages. Anyone else know of other archs that already have special
> > needs? (Once I have these ready, I'll post this message to
> > debian-ports - I'm not ready for a flood of emails yet)
>
> For now I strongly suggest just keeping the packages private for
> testing. Especially do not upload them to experimental. Having them out
> for public consumption is a bad bad idea.
>
> Once Drepper releases 2.2.90, we can make packages based on that, run it
> through its test suite for all arch's, and decide on when to upload it
> to unstable.
Seconded. Is there any advantage to coordinating this with the GCC 3.2
transition?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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