Hello Rainer,
On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 19:08 +0200, Rainer Traut wrote:
Please don't take it wrong but Akemi gave you the link because not everyone reads the forums and the issue was discussed there.
Which is highly appreciated, but it happened *after* I reported these issues, so it hardly counts as a heads up. That said, I did not mean to state this request as a demand in any kind or form, nor was it directed at just Akemi. It's a general request that if people are aware of breakage in upcoming updates to report it to this list.
I think I set a good example by reporting the breakage in xorg-x11-server-utils.
I would like to advice everyone to install the glibc package. The security impact of not doing so is too high. Only one who is affected by Evolution breakage should not do so.
Again please don't take it wrong but I think the tone of this thread is wrong, the security fix is just too important.
The issue is a bit more severe than just breaking evolution. It also breaks the gnome desktop by crashing gnome panels. Although I have no explanation of the grub breakage that occurred after these updates on my perhaps somewhat old and odd Sempron system I thought it might be related. As I haven't seen anyone else reports such issues it might have just been a fluke.
You are correct that I should have phrased my recommendation a bit less generally, but then I am not stopping anyone from making their own (informed) decisions.
Regards, Leonard.