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[Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault AT sourcemage.org>]

The current ISO is installing the stable grimoire which contains a buggy 
 glibc spell according to:

http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7560, Reported 2004-10-22
http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7831, Reported 2004-12-16

To solve this issue at least for building the ISO, an updated glibc 
spell (available in bug 7560) has been used. This spell is also 
installed by the ISO on the new system. So the end result is an 
installed system with a glibc spell NEWER than the one in the installed 
grimoire. This, according to Arwed, is not the proper way to do (See 
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/sm-discuss/2005-January/009378.html).

Since a working spell is available in bugzilla and since there has been 
some work on glibc recently, I'd like to know what is the status of this 
work.

If it's working, I'd like to know when it will be available in stable. 
If it's not working or if it will not be in stable before the next ISO 
release, I'd like to know how the ISO team could provide a working ISO 
(what spell should be used for building the ISO, on the ISO and 
installed by the ISO and what grimoire should be installed by the ISO?)

Benoit PAPILLAULT, ISO guru