Re: [Jackit-devel] Re: Re: little NPTL SCHED_FIFO test program
On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 16:55, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:28:24 -0400
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Argh, they will not even fix it in unstable? What is the point of
> > having an unstable distribution?!?. Can we at least add the fix to
> > experimental?
> >
> > If not now, then when do you expect this to be in unstable?
> >
> > I guess we will have to start our own campaign to get this fixed. If
> > they are too conservative to put a trivial fix like this in UNSTABLE,
> > which is the most bleeding edge thing they offer, we will just have to
> > update the jackd FAQ and post a notice on linux-audio-dev and
> > linux-audio-user recommending people use FC2 or SuSE because Debian
> > will not listen to its users.
> >
> > MONTHS were spent tracking this bug down. It is an insult to the
> > Linux audio community for Debian to refuse to fix this.
>
> Hmm, maybe it is possible to talk them into at least offering an
> optional libc6 package with NPTL 0.61 or the fix. Let them have the
> buggy version as default if they want. But for user convenience the
> fixed version must be available optionally in the main debian unstable
> distribution IMHO.
Exactly - if I can't get the bleeding edge fixes in unstable, WTF am I
supposed to use?
Lee
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