On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:36:58PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Since then, the KDE maintainer decided to upload new KDE. And hit > a new bug in GCC (3.3) on ia64, which is fixed in GCC CVS but not in > the current GCC upload. The current GCC upload hasn't been built on > m68k (it appears to have timed out). Of course, why bother building it > when a newer GCC is needed... > > But for that matter, the current GCC (and presumably any updated > version) apparently requires a new version of glibc to go into > 'testing'. And the latest glibc needs a rebuild on SPARC. Plus, it > has at least 5 RC bugs, so who knows when it'll make it into testing. > > So now it looks like KDE3 is a lot *further* from getting into sarge > than it was last week. > > I really don't know what can be done about this kind of thing, but it's > frustrating.
The same situation killed the new apt's chances of making it into testing as well. :-/ -- - mdz