Re: Exim

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:03:32PM -0400, Igor Khavkine wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:31:51PM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:21:10AM +0000, Philip Charles wrote:
> > 
> > > Waiting on the new gcc-3.0.  The one in the archive is 2.95
> > 
> > My screen this morning showed that GCC has compiled, but the packaging
> > wanted a boehm collector for something.  I will fix the packaging and
> > upload this evening.
> > 
> > At least gcc appears to compile, though!
> 
> I think the new GCC also uses the garbage collector for internal
> memory management. There is a patch for libgc5 in the BTS, but
> I haven't heard anything from the maintainer yet. Though I did
> bump the severity of the bug to important.

For such important packages it is often advisable to short cut to the
upstream people, so that we can get fixed packages as soon as possible.

Marcus


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