Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th May 2009 17:41 UTC, submitted by diegocg
Via LWN, we found a blog post of a Debian maintainer which announces a new package: EGLIBC, a compatible reimplementation of the GNU glibc which "which will soon replace the GNU C Library". Apparently the primary reason is the sadly famous bad maintainership aptitude of Ulrich Drepper, the main libc maintainer.
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Drepper works for Red Hat (though he's so strong-willed that Red Hat has little control over him). This would present a problem for Fedora choosing to go around him.
If Drepper were merely an ass, the solution would be simple: go around him. The problem is that he's a brilliant developer, and glibc is of very high quality thanks to him. Unfortunately, he is extremely stubborn and never admits error.