Mike Hommey a écrit : > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:03:17PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 09:39:07AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >>> On Sat, 17 May 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >>> >>>> ... glibc without patches can't work. >>> Isn't this the best support for Joey's proposal? >>> A software which does not work without patches is IMHO buggy. >> Do you have a proposal for a remplacement of the glibc then? >> >> And note we *do* forward patches we apply to the Debian Glibc, which is >> not always something pleasant to do, especially when it concerns >> "embedded crap" [1]: at best your patch is ignored, at worst you get >> insults. >> >> That's why I personally don't want another level of administrative task >> like proposed by Joey Hess, which won't improve things in that case. We >> already have hundreds of bugs to fix in the Debian Glibc package, I >> don't want to waste my time. >> >> >>> Despite the technical fact in this specific case it also forces divergences >>> between distributions - which is even worse. >>> >> Maybe it is worst, but it is actually a wish from upstream. Upstream >> Glibc maintainers also manage the RedHat/Fedora branch in the same CVS, >> and sometimes doesn't even bother to backport patches from this branch >> to the trunk. > > Isn't Ulrich Drepper RH/Fedora glibc maintainer ?
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