On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 12:20:43PM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > > potato is getting more and more broken as time pass and packages are > > compiled > > with glibc2.1, while glibc2.1 is not officially available in potato. What is > > holding you back Hartmut ? i guess you are waiting for the FSF to release > > glibc2.1 after solving the egcs/gcc political stuff ? will they modify > > glibc, > > or just wait for a fix in gcc to compile it ? > > I can't just upload only the binaries for powerpc for unstable, it must be > also > with the source. The reason is similary to the xfree-3.3.3.1 upload. :-) > > If i or Joel Klecker (the libc maintainer) uploads now the source, every > auto-builder > will get this packages and tries to compile it. This is not good for m68k for > the > moment. So we wait, that slink (debian 2.1) will move from state frozen to > stable. > The time-point was last monday, but we delayed it for one week.
ok, so we are waiting the release of slink, and not that the FSF will release glibc2.1 officially ? > > > Apart from that, has anyone managed to compile gnome stuff on dbeian/ppc ? > > does > > the dbuild daemon build it succesfully ? last i tried it built with errors, > > but > > then the gnome panel crashed on me. Is this a good package/group of > > packages i > > could work on ? After glib/gtk1.2 gets packaged naturally ... > > > > Will glib/gtk1.2 get build automatically ? > > Gnome is somewhat broken and the auto-builder hasen't get gtk1.2 yet ... > yes, but there is the gnome-gtk staging area, where supposedly people should test and stabilize gnome/gtk/imlib and related stuff before moving it into unstable all at once. but it seems to be i386 only, and only debs, no source available, i complained on the new debian-gtk-gnome mailing list, and lets see what happens. Best would be to have such a 'staging area' officially integrated in the debian tree, and have one for glibc2.1¸ and xfree also ... Friendly, Sven LUTHER
