On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 12:56:19PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: [..snip..] > Hmmm - I asked Joey about it - And he said - As long as the packages > itself are ok there is no reason why not to install them - But probably > we have to fight with James :) > > > Another point is: should we upload glibc2.0 based packages? Due to the > > things happening with gcc/libc and the proposed ABI change those > > packages would be probably of little use in near future - any opinions? > > There is backward compatibility with glibc 2.0 /2.2 - So we can > upload the 2.0 packages. So there won't be the propsed change to gcc which is supposed to break packages(http://www.suse.de/~aj/glibc-mips.html)?
> I am currently not able to even build glibc 2.2 so i think it might > take a bit until it stabelizes - We should start build glibc 2.2 packages > as soon as there are glibc 2.2. source packages for debian (Wil come > after potato is released). I've also not been very lucky with building glibc2.2, so that sounds very reasonable. Regards, -- Guido -- GPG-Public Key: http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/guenther.gpg.asc
