Hi Rob, On Sat 11 Feb 2012 04:39, Rob Browning <r...@defaultvalue.org> writes:
> Neil Jerram <n...@ossau.homelinux.net> writes: > >> Rob Browning <r...@defaultvalue.org> writes: > >>> So do I understand correctly that in order for this to work, we'll first >>> need an updated libgc in Debian unstable? >> >> Yes. > > Great. If we can get this and the s390 problem fixed, I'll be able to > see about removing 1.8 from Debian testing (which I'd love to do soon -- > I'd really like to drop 1.8 from the upcoming release). What happened here? I see that the libgc in the upcoming release is still 7.1, released in 2008, whereas 7.2 was released in May 2012. It's really unfortunate, given the large number of threading-related problems fixed by a non-ancient libgc. See also: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673965 Regards, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/