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: > > On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 10:02, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Correct. Nothing meaningful in sarge will change until somebody fixes > > > glibc. Also, testing updates were temporarily stopped after the fiery > > > death of non-us.debian.org; see debian-devel recently. > > > > Okay, so my question and potential reasons weren't wild and scurrilous > > speculation on my part this time. > > :-) > > > 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. > > -- > Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk] Ouch - my guess is that those won't all install without a dist-upgrade to handle at least a few inter-related dependencies. Does that also include gcc 3.2 recompilation of code, or is that something else still coming down the stream? -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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