Re: Exim

[Igor Khavkine <i_khavki@alcor.concordia.ca>]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 03:14:08AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 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.

I sent a copy of the patch to Hans Boehm. Hopefully he will move on
it faster then the debian maintainer. However the patch also contained
a modification of the debian/rules file, so it will have to be NMU'd
if the maintainer doesn't apply it any time soon.

Igor