Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.16 moving to ~arch

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 18 August 2012 01:16:29 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
>  - everything depending on boost (current 1.49 won't work, you need
> 1.50, and quite a few things break with 1.50);

there's a trivial patch needed to make 1.49 work.  forcing people to use 1.50 
is purely the boost's maintainers choice.

>  - everything depending on gnutls (current 2.x version does not build
> with glibc 2.16, and quite a few things don't build with gnutls 3);

there's a trivial patch long been available that you've refused to merge.  so 
any errors here are of your choosing.

> Congrats, this is just the kind of behaviour that makes Gentoo look
> professional... no wait I meant the other way around I guess. Because
> the automake 1.12 breakage is not enough to have in tree, hm?

*yawn*.  don't use unstable if you want stability.
-mike