Hi Simon, On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 03:50:18AM -0800, Simon Chopin wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 02:02:15AM -0800, Simon Chopin wrote: > > > Hi Release Team,
> > > It seems we have a few big transitions either in progress (perl, > > > python) or about to start in the coming weeks (php, armhf 64bit time_t). > > > My original plans for glibc would add fuel to that fire, as I projected > > > to upload it to -proposed in about 2 weeks. > > You use the past tense here; > > https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/noble-numbat-release-schedule/35649 shows > > glibc 2.39 for this week. Did this projection change, and in which > > direction? > I though I'd scheduled it for next week, that's my bad. If you prefer I > stick to the announced plan I can probably do it for Friday, though. We discussed this in the release team today, and provided you have it ready to go, +1 for an upload on Friday. > > "presumably" - usually, the new symbols from one release to the next are > > small and don't affect too many packages. Can you give us a list of new > > symbols in 2.39, to understand how significant this is? Because there's a > > tension here between wanting packages to pick up the new interfaces, and > > wanting unrelated uploads of packages to not get stuck behind glibc in > > -proposed if the migration takes a long time. > I've attached the list. It is entirely composed of brand new symbols > rather than redefinition of existing APIs. The bulk of the symbols are > implementations of the <stdbit.h> header, which feels like the kind of > things that configure scripts check for and conditionally enable. That > is purely speculation on my part though. My assessment is that these are all fairly niche APIs that won't block the vast majority of packages in -proposed, so the only concern is autopkgtest contention. And for that, the sooner you get this uploaded, the better! (Even better to upload right before a weekend!) Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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