Bug#1022926: transition: glibc 2.36

[Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-glibc@lists.debian.org

Dear release team,

I would like to get a transition slot for glibc 2.36. It has been
available in experimental for a bit more than one month and does not
have any known major issue. It has been built successfully on all
release architectures and many ports architectures. A few issues found
through the autopkgtest pseudo excuses for experimental have been fixed.
The remaining ones are due to britney bugs, broken autopkgtest or
packages parts of the transition.

As 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. Here is the corresponding ben file:

  title = "glibc";
  is_affected = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<</;
  is_good = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.37\)/;
  is_bad = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.36\)/;

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, however those are really limited in this version and
mostly linked to new filesystem, processes or random functions, so
unlikely to be massively used by default.

Note that this version builds with GCC 12 instead of GCC 11, so it is a
prerequisite for not shipping bookworm with GCC 11.

Thanks for considering.

Regards,
Aurelien