Control: tags -1 confirmed On 02/01/18 22:37, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > 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
Please go ahead. Emilio
