Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 18:32 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: >> Do you have an idea of how many packages need to be fixed? Is it just a >> matter of a new deb of a fixed version of nptl? Unfortunately, NTPL is part of libc. That is not a package distributions are eager to update, because *everything* depends on it. > It just needs the patch that I posted, check the bug report. That's > what Ubuntu did for Hoary, it's NPTL 0.60 with this and a few other > critical bugs fixed. > > But none of this changes the fact that Sarge for audio is a non starter, > you'll still have to run unstable. It works fine for me, using the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL workaround for the NTPL bug. It *is* annoying that they didn't fix it. But, I think the problem is that Sarge was frozen for so long and they didn't want to perturb the whole release by dropping a new libc. I would't blame them for that. -- joq
