On Friday 07 March 2003 12:43, Bob Miller wrote: > Anyone running Debian testing (aka Sarge) will want to take note. > > ----- Forwarded message from Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > From: Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 04:10:53 +1000 > Subject: Warning: glibc 2.3.1 entering testing soon > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hello world, > > glibc 2.3.1-14 should be entering testing "tomorrow" (sometime around 30 > hours from now, depending on your mirror). Along with it, some 800 other > source packages and all their binaries are expected to be updated. For > those of you running testing systems, please take care of the next few > days' upgrades, as a number of things *will* break. > > php4 will be broken on all architectures. This will be fixed by the > removal of the Conflicts: line from the libc6 packages in a forthcoming > revision. It can be worked around by not upgrading until that version of > libc6 is available;
Bob, Will you post a notice when this has been done? Thanks for the warning. Kent > by upgrading to php4 from unstable; or by manually > forcing the dependencies (and not using apt). > > On sparc, the libc6-sparc64 package has been removed; this will mean > you'll be unable to install the versions of gcc-3.0, gcc-3.2, and a > number of related packages in testing. This can be worked around by not > using the versions of those packages from unstable, or by not upgrading > libc6 until new versions of the affected packages have entered testing. > > On hppa, What is hppa? > a number of programs that make use of the __clz_tab symbol will > fail to find it. That this symbol is visible was a bug in the toolchain, > that has been fixed; unfortunately the fix breaks old software, including, > eg, wget, lftp and other programs that link against libcrypto. You can > work around this problem by avoiding using the affected programs, by > rebuilding them from source, or by not upgrading libc6. Some compatability > code will be introduced in the next version of glibc so that this isn't > an issue. > > Similar problems related to other symbols might appear on hppa or other > architectures. The problem is believed to have been fixed on i386, but > may not have been entirely addressed. Please report problems you find > in the usual manner. > > There may be undiscovered interactions between the software that isn't > being updated yet, and the 800 packages that are being updated. Given that > so many packages are being updated in a single hit, and that a number > of core packages (gcc, perl, python, gnome, kde) will differ between > testing and unstable, this is significantly more likely than usual. > > In short, please take care administering any testing systems you rely > on over the next few days. > > If you wish to put libc6 on hold, you can do so at the command line by: > > # echo libc6 hold | dpkg --set-selections > > or by using dselect or aptitude or similar. > > Cheers, > aj > > -- > Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Debian Release Manager > > ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
