Re: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016, at 09:11, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 17/11/16 at 08:31 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > The deal with *current* Debian stable is that, if the breakage is too
> > widespread, we simply might not be able to do the right thing (fix the
> > real bugs).
>
> Based on the number of bugs uncovered by my archive rebuild, I'm really
> not sure that this class of bugs is widespread, and requires to be
> special-cased. Relying on users to report problems, and then fix them
> is probably enough.
The rebuild was helpful, but it depends on the application/library
regression test suite to detect any application locking issues. Not
every package has those, or runs those during build :-(
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Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
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