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Re: upgrading consequences?



arief_mulya <arief@bna.telkomsel.co.id> writes:
> And actually, what is going on with libc? why haven't it upload to
> testing yet?

There's a concise explanation at http://packages.qa.debian.org/glibc;
essentially, it boils down to there being hard-to-fix release-critical
bugs.

> (to my understanding, it's what makes so many new stuff left out
> from testing, please CMIIW).

That's my understanding, too; most things in unstable (directly or
indirectly) depend on glibc 2.3.1 or newer, which isn't in testing.

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