Bug#167409: glibc 2.3.1: breaks XEmacs builds; system breaks on revert to 2.2.5
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> writes:
Daniel> You're not listening to yourself. I was objecting to your
Daniel> comment that we did _worse_ than upstream on
Daniel> compatibility. Which is untrue.
Depends on how you look at it. As far as I'm concerned, neither glibc
the library nor libc6 the Debian package need make any commitment to
compatibility in this sense. Debian the distribution, on the other
hand, should make such a commitment.
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