[Fwd: Re: [Th] Upgrade apport - jak rozumieć ten błąd?]

[Elan Ruusamäe]

On Wednesday 09 April 2008 21:25, Tomasz Mateja wrote:
> > and instead of living out your feelings, report bugs what is wrong with
> > 2.6.22 kernel (in lists or http://bugs.pld-linux.org/). 2.6.16 is at
> > least three years old kernel. upstream is near 2.6.25 already. and th/ti
> > do have 2.6.22 kernel, do you shout there too?
>
> So what?
> Why not upgrade glibc in ac to 2.7? and XFree to xorg - they are also
> very old. This is STABLE so minor updates or security updates are
> welcome. bugs.pld-... is not the place for this request.

glibc = would break 2.4 kernel compatability (afaik already glibc 2.4 required 
2.6.0 kernel), that has been accidentally already broken several times. 
intentionally broking it would be evil.

xorg 7.0 = too much to rebuild with so less gain, and so far there's no binary 
incompatibility that i've encountered using X11 (aka xorg 6.9).

and kernel update is needed to let ac live a little longer. as there's need to 
support newer hardware. it was considered dead already time it was released. 
and some major changes like updating glibc or gcc would mean changing the 
distro, i.e dropping some architectures and 2.4 kernel compatability.

-- 
glen