<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">That's been a problem for me too, but how does the glibc in testing actually work? I see from the changelog (2025/09/19) it's got a bunch of packages:</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">testing/packages/binutils-gcc-glibc/aaa_glibc-solibs-2.42-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Added.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;">testing/packages/binutils-gcc-glibc/binutils-2.45-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Added.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;">testing/packages/binutils-gcc-glibc/gcc-15.2.0-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Added.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;">testing/packages/binutils-gcc-glibc/gcc-g++-15.2.0-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Added.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;">testing/packages/binutils-gcc-glibc/gcc-gcobol-15.2.0-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Added.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;">testing/packages/binutils-gcc-glibc/gcc-gdc-15.2.0-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Added.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;">testing/packages/binutils-gcc-glibc/gcc-gfortran-15.2.0-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Added.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;">testing/packages/binutils-gcc-glibc/gcc-gm2-15.2.0-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Added.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;">testing/packages/binutils-gcc-glibc/gcc-gnat-15.2.0-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Added.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;">testing/packages/binutils-gcc-glibc/gcc-go-15.2.0-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Added.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;">testing/packages/binutils-gcc-glibc/gcc-objc-15.2.0-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Added.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;">testing/packages/binutils-gcc-glibc/gcc-rust-15.2.0-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Added.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;">testing/packages/binutils-gcc-glibc/glibc-2.42-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Added.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;">testing/packages/binutils-gcc-glibc/glibc-i18n-2.42-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Added.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;">testing/packages/binutils-gcc-glibc/glibc-profile-2.42-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz: Added.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Is it as simple as upgradepkg on all of those? No special upgrade order?</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Thanks,</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">--</div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Dave</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div>On Fri, 8 May 2026, at 1:36 AM, Greg Tourte wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="ltr"><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace, monospace;font-size:x-small;">Hi,</div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace, monospace;font-size:x-small;"><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace, monospace;font-size:x-small;">I am getting more and more uncomfortable with not being able to have signal-desktop updated.</div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace, monospace;font-size:x-small;"><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace, monospace;font-size:x-small;">I realise that versions above 8.1 do not work with vanilla stable but they do work with the glibc in the testing folder in -stable (and of course they will work in -current).</div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace, monospace;font-size:x-small;"><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace, monospace;font-size:x-small;">What I am proposing is to have a new signal-desktop-legacy package with the latest version working on -stable without the testing glibc and keep the signal-desktop package fully uptodate and a note in the README file.</div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace, monospace;font-size:x-small;"><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace, monospace;font-size:x-small;">Does this sound acceptable?</div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace, monospace;font-size:x-small;"><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace, monospace;font-size:x-small;">Cheers</div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace, monospace;font-size:x-small;"><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace, monospace;font-size:x-small;">Greg</div></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>SlackBuilds-users mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org">SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org</a></div><div><a href="https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users">https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users</a></div><div>Archives - <a href="https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/">https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/</a></div><div>FAQ - <a href="https://slackbuilds.org/faq/">https://slackbuilds.org/faq/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div></body></html>