Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/glibc-2.24.html Control: tags -1 confirmed
On 19/08/16 23:47, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > Usertags: transition > > Dear release team, > > We would like to get a transition slot for glibc 2.24. It is currently > available in experimental and has been built successfully on all > official architectures. For the debian-ports architectures the > situation also looks good except for hppa with multiple regressions in > the testsuite due to the use of gcc-6 instead of gcc-5. This is being > worked on, and I don't think we should not block the transition on that. > > The glibc 2.24 is built using gcc-6 instead of gcc-5, the transition is > therefore important for the gcc-5 removal. This will be the version > shipped with Stretch, so this is the last major change before the > release. Of course we plan to improve things by fixing additional bugs, > mostly by tracking the upstream 2.24 stable branch as long as possible. > > As the glibc is using symbol versioning, there is no soname change. That > said a few packages are using libc internal symbols and have to be > rebuilt for this transition: > - apitrace > - bro > - dante > - libnih > - libnss-db > - unscd > > Here is the corresponding ben file: > title = "glibc"; > is_affected = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<</; > is_good = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.25\)/; > is_bad = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.24\)/; > > This version will also make a few packages to fail to build from source > due to the removal of deprecated part of the API. The existing binaries > still work (the ABI hasn't changed), so there this doesn't cause any > issue for upgrades. Bugs have been reported against these packages: > #833727 - emacs24: FTBFS with glibc 2.24 > #833965 - tcsh: uses deprecated BSD union wait type > #833968 - csh: uses deprecated BSD union wait type > #833970 - netkit-rsh: uses deprecated BSD union wait type > #833971 - xautolock: uses deprecated BSD union wait type > #833972 - socks4-server: uses deprecated BSD union wait type > #833995 - gridengine: embedded tcsh copy uses deprecated BSD union wait type > While it has been done relatively recently they all contain a patch, so > I don't think we should consider them as blockers for the transition. > > In addition a few new symbols have been added that might prevent a few > other packages to transition to testing if they pick up the new symbols. > They are quick_exit for libc.so and nextdown*/nextup* for libm.so. Sorry for the delay, I was away. Go ahead. Cheers, Emilio
