On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:30:43AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > the GNOME team is facing a dillema regarding the migration of GNOME 2.10 > to sarge. The issue comes from #313219 : basically, gnomeVFS 2.10 > crashes when running over a 2.4 kernel. This comes from a bug in glibc, > which is solved in the experimental version. > Currently, we have let a bug opened on gnomeVFS, so that it waits for > the new glibc in unstable - I was told it is to be uploaded to unstable > soon. However, with the unavoidable delay the glibc migration to testing > will face, we'll be stuck without GNOME 2.10 in etch for a few weeks. > Things could get worse if it overlaps with some scheduled transitions > (gcc 4.0, python). > I was also told that Linux 2.4 isn't supported in etch anymore. If this > is the case, we could as well tell testing users to upgrade to Linux > 2.6. I would like this to be the case, but we're still a long way from it being anything more than wishful thinking. A number of architectures are still 2.4-only in the archive right now. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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