Bug#166721: marked as done (glibc: too many bugs)
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From: Aleksi Suhonen <debian-reportbug-2002@ssd.axu.tm>
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Subject: glibc: too many bugs
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Package: glibc
Version: unavailable; reported 2002-10-28
Severity: normal
Tags: sid
This bug report addresses two problems with the whole glibc package family:
Firstly, there are hundreds of open bugs in glibc. Some of them
are over five (5) years old. Some (most?) of them appear to be fixed,
but have still been left outstanding. How can users with problems
with the package(s) be expected to give meaningful feedback?
Secondly, on sparc (and possibly on other non-intel architectures as well)
only "locales" seems to be built, since it's architecture independent.
Hence routinely when new glibc packages are created, the sparc platform
gets out of sync packages with non-existant dependencies. Careless
users will get their locales package uninstalled and they can't
reinstall it. Many other packages may suffer as a result as well.
I probably ought to debug this myself, but as my defence I will
reiterate the fact that there are too many open bugs to wade through
first.
(Hmm ... glibc-doc is built too of course, but it's not featured
in important interdependencies.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: sparc
Kernel: Linux monni 2.4.18 #2 Fri Jul 19 06:52:09 EEST 2002 sparc
Locale: LANG=3DC, LC_CTYPE=3Dfi_FI
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From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: Aleksi Suhonen <debian-reportbug-2002@ssd.axu.tm>,
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Subject: Re: Bug#166721: glibc: too many bugs
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> Firstly, there are hundreds of open bugs in glibc. Some of them
> are over five (5) years old. Some (most?) of them appear to be fixed,
> but have still been left outstanding. How can users with problems
> with the package(s) be expected to give meaningful feedback?
Filing a bug about bugs is sort of stupid, don't you think?
> Secondly, on sparc (and possibly on other non-intel architectures as well)
> only "locales" seems to be built, since it's architecture independent.
As the SPARC maintainer, I say, get over it. You should have said that
"unstable" frequently gets out of sync. That's life, it happens in a
dist that changes daily. Nothing much can be done about it.
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