Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

[Joris Huizer <jorishuizer@planet.nl>]

Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote:
> I'm using Sarge.
>
> I just did an "aptitude update," and now when I attempt to upgrade,
> aptitude says that it wants to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev.
>
> I know that those are pretty critical to the functioning of the system,
> so I've temporarily put them on hold, and I'm not upgrading yet.
>
> My question is "why are libc6 and libc6-dev being upgraded?" I didn't
> see anything on the http://www.debian.org/security/ site suggesting that
> libc6 needed to be upgraded, and I didn't change my sources.list.
>
> This is "stable." Things aren't upgraded unless it's a security concern 
> (or so I thought).
>
> I'm scared to upgrade because I don't want a non-functional system, and
> I don't want Etch or Sid.

I don't know exactly why libc6 is upgraded, but the upgrade seems to be 
part of the 3.1r2 update (see http://release.debian.org/stable/3.1/3.1r2/)
I got it too, just tracking sarge too

HTH,

Joris