Hi, all! I'm pleased to announce the availability of glibc-1.0.106 packages for Debian GNU/Hurd i386. Unfortunately, I don't have any way to upload them to master.debian.org (due to administrative problems involving an out-of-date PGP key and my pending registration as a Debian developer).
So, in the meantime, I've uploaded all these glibc packages to alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/hurd/debian Since this is my first attempt at building a Debian package, I'm sure that there will be minor glitches, but I'll leave it to you folks to find them out. ;) Any help with `Depends' and `Obsoletes' lines (as well as preinstall/postinstall scripts) would be especially appreciated. Building these packages took a lot of space and time: 900MB and three days was just barely enough! I hope my efforts will save the rest of you a lot of hassle, and let you get working on porting other Debian packages to the Hurd. Once we have a reasonably stable glibc package, I'll get the changes merged into the official Debian sources, and by then they'll definitely be available through the usual Debian channels, rather than just alpha.gnu.org. As for the next step... if somebody else wants to build a hurd-19981204 Debian package against this libc (using Marcus Brinkmann's Hurd package rules as a starting point), please let me know. Otherwise, I should find time to do it in the next few days. Have fun, -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Lovers of freedom, unite! \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/) [Unfortunately, www.fig.org is broken. Please stay tuned for details.]