Re: Slink to potato upgrade
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 11:41:52AM +0000, Kevin Dalley wrote:
> Whether the application is written "correctly" or not, if the
> application has enough users, and was supported, however
> inadvertently, under the old libraries, users will have problems with
> the libraries. Moral superiority doesn't fix the user's broken
> software.
A bug exists in either the library, or the broken programs that use it.
Either way, we should fix the bug, rather than just working around the
edges.
Perhaps it is sheer fluke that these programs work on libc6.0.
Hamish
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