On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 19:00:33 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 05:12:35PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: >> Some non-packaged software, e.g. the BOINC client, requires a >> relatively recent version of glibc.
There always be some package that requires some version for some library. This loop can only be broken when using rolling-alike linux distributions (or you have the patience to do the manual job without breaking a current system). >> Wheezy, the latest non-unstable version of Debian, is stuck at 2.13, >> released 1.5 years ago, and since it is frozen there won't be a new >> glibc available for some undetermined amount of time probably not less >> than six months. Sid also shares the same version since July, very recent. >> So aside from waiting for jessie to exist, what are my options? Your options for "today"? Self-compiling. Your options for the long-term? Sticking to Sid. >> Has anyone tried installing glibc from unstable in a Wheezy system? How >> usable is sid, these days? No, too dangerous to my taste. > Never mind, I just checked and Sid is also running 2.13. Apparently I'd > have to use ANOTHER DISTRO to get a glibc less than 18 months old. > > Really? > > Developers: really? The core of developers are not here. > I gauess the only way to get an answer to the above rhetorical question > would be to file a bug against glibc--that's how to reach the glibc > team, right? Maybe there's a compelling reason for still using such "old" version of glibc but asking to people in charge is not going to do any bad. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k2krae$77j$2...@ger.gmane.org
