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>>>>> "Thorsten" == Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> writes: Thorsten> On Mon, Jul 31, Jakub Jelinek wrote: >> What's your suggested way of testing things sufficiently so that >> glibc 2.2 can be a reality soonish? I think a Beta distribution is >> a very good way how to get thousands of testers (which would not >> give it a shot otherwise) to test it. Thorsten> Yes, it is a good way. But we know that we will have binary Thorsten> incompatible changes for 2.2 final (like sunrpc/IPv6). And Thorsten> here the problem starts: Tell the people that they can Thorsten> delete everything the build. They will claim that we have to Thorsten> make binary compatible beta versions and will not accept Thorsten> this. We had this already. gcc 3.0 has the same problem, still people are sticking gcc-2.9x in their distributions. Jes
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