workaround for glibc bug

Tom Albers tomalbers at kde.nl
Thu Sep 27 21:01:05 BST 2007


Op do 27 sep 2007 21:53 schreef u:
> >Tom Albers wrote:
> >> The debian-team thinks we should not 'depend' on it, only make a note
> >> in the requirements as in 'because of bug 897 we advise glibc
> >> version', where 897 is the bugreport from glibc.
> 
> We add to KDE 4.0 Release Notes: "if you're on Linux and you're not using 
> glibc version 2.6.xxx, you might experience freezes. Upgrade."

That's what I suggested to do. With the exception to give a bit more details, as distro's are a bit slow with updating glibc and this way they can make sure the bugfix is in the glibc they ship at that moment.

Toma


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