Hello everyone, ... glibc 2.3.1-12 is almost ready, and should fix all RC bugs (except the licence issue, but which will not stop glibc to enter testing, after all the licence problems has been in glibc for years, so it would not make the new version less buggy than the one actually in testing). The message about it can be seen here :
http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2003/debian-glibc-200302/msg00191.html Anyway, as discussed previously, this marks the begining of our ocaml mini-freeze, so that we are ready to enter testing together with the new glibc. BTW, the testing version of ocaml will break as soon as the new glibc will enter testing, the proper solution would be to add a Conflicts: ocaml (<<3.06-7) to libc6, but this means that libc6 will have to wait for ocaml to be ready, which i feel is not nice, so i think we should go with this temporary brokeness, if you all agree. After all, people using testing should upgrade to the unstable version, and all would be fine. That said, there is a problem with people from testing using the woody backport from Stefano, which i believe uses the same version numbers as the unstable version, but is built with the older glibc, and thus will not be catched by the above conflict. Maybe i should upload a 3.06-16 or 17 version or such, and ask the glibc maintainers to add the conflict to it, and Stefano don't backports it. Or maybe, Stefano, you should renumber the ocaml backport package to something like : ocaml 3.06-0.16 or something such in the future ? Or maybe we should publisize this fact or something such (with a mail on the caml-list maybe). Anyway, please everyone check your packages and your packages dependencies, and try to follow up with problems that may come up. All my packages are built on all arches, except advi which is missing on ia64 and mips, and also camlimages for which i did an NMU. Need to check the dependencies of those yet though. Friendly, Sven Luther
