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The backport policy is flawed--but entrenched in Debian

The backport policy is flawed--but entrenched in Debian

Posted Feb 26, 2004 21:01 UTC (Thu) by oak (guest, #2786)
In reply to: The backport policy is flawed--but entrenched in Debian by ncm
Parent article: The trouble with backporting fixes

You need to recompile everything (including all architectures) just to make sure that the new glibc version really works. And by "works" I don't mean that it would run software correctly, just that it can be used to build it.


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The backport policy is flawed--but entrenched in Debian

Posted Feb 28, 2004 13:19 UTC (Sat) by gallir (guest, #5735) [Link]

If you really have to recompile everything to assure they work, something
is seriously flawed in our "shared object" implementation.

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