Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition
Dear release team, I would like to get a transition slot for glibc 2.26. It is available in experimental for one month and a half, and there is no known regression. It has been built successfully on all release architectures, and most other architectures besides kfreebsd-* which do not have build daemons anymore. The failures on hurd-i386 and hppa are being worked on and can be fixed in the upload to sid or later, so I don't think we should block the transition on that. 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 - p11-kit - unscd Here is the corresponding ben file: title = "glibc"; is_affected = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<</; is_good = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.27\)/; is_bad = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.26\)/; In addition a few new symbols have been added that might prevent a few other packages to migrate to testing until glibc migrates if they pick up the new symbols. That's mostly the case for libm.so, which added 128-bit floating point support on amd64, i386, and ppc64el. On the libc.so side the new functions are reallocarray, preadv2 and pwritev2, which should not be widely used so far. Thanks for considering -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
