[arch-general] [testing] protocol - {WAS: [arch-dev-public] WARNING - glibc-2.13-2}

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 20:37 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 06/02/11 20:16, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 20:10 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> >> I have removed the glibc-2.13-2 package until a fix is committed to
> >> upstream git.  All users should downgrade to the version in [core].
> >>
> >> Allan
> >
> > While I understand why Allan did this, shouldn't this be unnecessary for
> > the [testing] repo? Those who use it know what to do, after all....
> 
> Probably.  And if the breakage was more minor, I would have left it 
> there (e.g. what has been done with the make package).   But given I 
> still do not 100% understand the bug and the there is no real schedule 
> for an upstream fix, I thought it best to just make everybody's life 
> easier and remove the package for the time being.
> 
> Allan

Ah. I guess the fact that its not really an upstream release but a bunch
of backported stuff also has an effect?