On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:08:00AM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > >Well, good news, but bad news also .. > > > >I was looking at the postgresql dependencies, (perl 5.8 is not yet in > >testing for example) and noticed that libc6 2.3.1 is not yet in testing > >also, and has a page full of bugs (13 release critical, many arches out > >of sync because of bugs, ...). > > > > Doh! Many showstoppers.
Mmm, maybe not so many, i looked quickly at the bugs, and they seem (apart from the ones giving fixes) related to two things : o program breaking (mainly nss and such stuff, php, apache) because they use undocumented functions of libc that are no more exported. o program breaking, as ocaml did, because they need a rebuild with the new libc6. So i think this situation is not yet solved but many people are working actively at it, and it may be solved nextly, i hope. > >Ocaml 3.06 depends on libc6 2.3.1 (since i had to rebuild ocaml for the > >new libc6 because it introduced incompatibilities), as does postgresql, > >so altough we sovled our problems, there is no hope of a quick testing > >migration, we have to change our plans, here are a few options : > > > > o suspend the mini-freeze, and continue to work as we did. > > I agree. Well, Let's wait a week yet or something such, unless something important happens, and see how the libc6 situation evolves. > > o postpone the libdir migration to the sucessfull testing migration. > > I agree. Anyway, we have no choice, apart from breaking all of unstable in a few days. > > o do a libdir migrated ocaml package in experimental. > > Why not. But we have to be cautious about not closing bugs in > experimental uploads (because uploads to experimental are > considered as standard uploads). I could also setup a private staging area on my debian acount or something such. This would maybe be neater. Friendly, Sven Luther
