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Re: glibc from woody on potato?



On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 06:06:53PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote:
> Some of the package I use are now updated in the woody distrobution, and
> unfortunately they require a newer glibc than the current potato version
> has. I am vary of upgrading (g)libc as I'm afraid it will break my
> system. Does anybody know if this will be possible. I do not want to
> upgrade everything to woody though.
> 
> Thanks in advance.

The glibc in woody is arguably more stable than the one in potato. It
should not break anything if you use apt to do the upgrade (I speak as the
maintainer of the glibc packages).

Ben

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