Debian testing

Jutro do dystrybucji Debian testing (codename Sarge) po długich bojach „wchodzi” glibc 2.3.1-14, a wraz z nim 800 innych przetrzymanych pakietów. Co nas może spotkać ? Oryginalną wiadomość znajdziemy tutaj.

[the reposted version, silly mailing lists]    Hello world,    glibc 2.3.1-14 should be entering testing "tomorrow" (sometime around 30  hours from now, depending on your mirror). Along with it, some 800 other  source packages and all their binaries are expected to be updated. For  those of you running testing systems, please take care of the next few  days' upgrades, as a number of things *will* break.    php4 will be broken on all architectures. This will be fixed by the  removal of the Conflicts: line from the libc6 packages in a forthcoming  revision. It can be worked around by not upgrading until that version of  libc6 is available; by upgrading to php4 from unstable; or by manually  forcing the dependencies (and not using apt).    On sparc, the libc6-sparc64 package has been removed; this will mean  you'll be unable to install the versions of gcc-3.0, gcc-3.2, and a  number of related packages in testing. This can be worked around by not  using the versions of those packages from unstable, or by not upgrading  libc6 until new versions of the affected packages have entered testing.    On hppa, a number of programs that make use of the __clz_tab symbol will  fail to find it. That this symbol is visible was a bug in the toolchain,  that has been fixed; unfortunately the fix breaks old software, including,  eg, wget, lftp and other programs that link against libcrypto. You can  work around this problem by avoiding using the affected programs, by  rebuilding them from source, or by not upgrading libc6. Some compatability  code will be introduced in the next version of glibc so that this isn't  an issue.    Similar problems related to other symbols might appear on hppa or other  architectures. The problem is believed to have been fixed on i386, but  may not have been entirely addressed. Please report problems you find  in the usual manner.    There may be undiscovered interactions between the software that isn't  being updated yet, and the 800 packages that are being updated. Given that  so many packages are being updated in a single hit, and that a number  of core packages (gcc, perl, python, gnome, kde) will differ between  testing and unstable, this is significantly more likely than usual.    In short, please take care administering any testing systems you rely  on over the next few days.    If you wish to put libc6 on hold, you can do so at the command line by:    	# echo libc6 hold | dpkg --set-selections    or by using dselect or aptitude or similar.    Cheers,  aj    --  Anthony Towns   Debian Release Manager  

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