Re: libc6 is broken (still)

[Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:55:06AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > From what I understood, the current ld.so breakage is not worth a new 
> > upload in Ben Collins' opinion. And this is driving me crazy. This bug 
> > has been present for over a month now.
> >
> > Would somebody care making a new version of the libc6 with the patch here:
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2001-06/msg00238.html
> >
> > I have tried to do the compilation myself, but it fails some tests, and 
> > craps out (I'm probably using the wrong compiler version or something). 
> > I attached the patch I added to debian/patches (I also modified the 
> > 0list file in the same directory).
> >
> > I hope someone can help, and I apologise in advance if mozilla is to 
> > send this mail in HTML
>
> I'll try to talk Ben into a new upload.  In fact, he seems to have
> already been talked into it.


He might have seen me yelling and kicking yesterday evening on 
#debian-devel. glibc is definitely not something you want broken...

Well, I reckon you don't need the .dpatch file that I forgot to attach 
to my previous email then ;)

BTW, could you explain to us what this problem is exactly about, and 
what needs to be done to other software (like Michael asked about X) ?

Thanks a lot for taking care of that.

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/Bastien Nocera

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