Re: ETA for glibc 2.3.4?
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:54:39PM -0800, Kevin A. Burton wrote:
> Why can't you put an updated glibc in unstable and let 2.3.2 remain in
> testing? Isn't that what unstable's FOR?
No. That interferes with the migration of other packages to testing,
and generally makes it harder to create a release.
> If you just put an updated glibc in unstable people like the Internet
> Archive and Rojo wouldn't have to use an entire new distribution or
> build from source (which I wouldn't mind so much as long as there were
> instructions somewhere).
>
> Thread race conditions seems like a big issue :-/
Sorry, but building glibc is not for the faint of heart. If you
download the source package, you may be able to add patches to
debian/patches/00series and see if that works.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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