Re: Updates to Sarge?
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:50:49PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 13:45, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:39:25PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> > > Should we expect that when glibc is ready, we will be looking at an
> > > apt-get upgrade for a system pinned to Testing will prove to be > 100
> > > packages?
> >
> > It wouldn't surprise me. There are currently 900 packages waiting for a
> > fixed glibc (although they may be waiting for other things too, so take
> > that figure with a pinch of salt).
> >
> > If aj decides to restart the testing scripts (he commented that there
> > wasn't much point at the moment since glibc was stuck), a few
> > documentation updates or updates to packages based on certain scripting
> > languages might make it through, but that's about it.
>
> Ouch - my guess is that those won't all install without a dist-upgrade
> to handle at least a few inter-related dependencies.
Not sure about that; I use dselect. It depends whether any package names
have changed.
> Does that also include gcc 3.2 recompilation of code, or is that
> something else still coming down the stream?
That's not here yet.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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