Posted May 6, 2009 14:34 UTC (Wed) by DiegoCG (subscriber, #9198)
Parent article: Debian switching to EGLIBC
I think a lot of people suspected that at some point something like this had to happen. I mean, it's not that those bugzilla links are an exception, and everybody knew it. It's like what happened with Xfree86 or with some BSDs - bad maintainers make impossible to contribute useful code and slow down the progress of the project (ask to the people that needed to use Google's tcmalloc for years to get decent performance in many scenarios), so at some point either a fork or something like this needed to happen.