> > Well, this seems an idea, but still many bugs are remained in BTS. > > Debian glibc stores up many bugs. > > So what? As long as they're known to be fixed by 2.3.2, what's the > big deal? Stalling all of sarge for the sake of closing a bunch of > bugs in one package seems like a stunningly pyrrhic victory to me. >
It's not always _bugs_ that we're fighting. It's full out development. Architectures not supported upstream have active development being done within Debian/Others, which unfortuantely takes a lot of testing and time. c.

