On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just found out this morning that glibc-2.23 is to be released soon. > Looking at https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.23, it looks like > most of their objectives for the release have been made. > > Right now I'm building a full LFS at -j1 for size and time statistics and > have been planning to go through the release process today for 7.9-rc1. > > The question is whether we should wait for the latest glibc? I'm not 100% > comfortable about updating a critical package just before release. Waiting > will certainly push back the stable release. > > There are some security bugs fixed in the latest version: > > https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-01/msg00535.html > > but they look pretty esoteric to me. > > Opinions? > > -- Bruce > I believe that we should probably release anyway. Although there are some security bugs fixed in the latest version, pushing back the release doesn't seem right with such a critical package, since it will likely require more testing, more suited to a development version. Douglas R. Reno
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