Re: Release-critical Bugreport for January 7, 2000
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 01:52:09PM +0300, Alexey Vyskubov wrote:
> > I think that all we have to do is to package libc6 version instead of libc5.
>
> But it appears that the libc5 binaries are the solution to the terrible
> instability problems that we've had in the past. Like when you close
> one window and the rest go with it. This hasn't happened to me on
> linux netscape in ages now.
That's right. IIRC, doogie said that actually it was some complex
interaction with some code in xlib, and it wasn't technically a bug in
netscape. I never asked for the details.
But, the nub is, yes, the libc5 version has been much more stable for
me...
Jules
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