glibc status for Etch
Hi,
The toolchain freeze begins the 30th of July, in a few days... I have
just uploaded a new version of the glibc, version 2.3.6-16.
It will be a few days late for the freeze, but I would like you to
consider it for Etch. It has the latest (small) changes we would like to
see in Etch, and also it fixes an FTBFS on powerpc. The FTBFS on m68k is
not fixed, but I think it is related to another package (binutils ?).
Otherwise the glibc package is in a relative good shape. We failed to
push version 2.4 into Etch, mainly because linuxthreads was dropped from
upstream and needed a some work. It will be easier in Etch+1 because we
won't have to support 2.4 kernels. This way we have a glibc in Etch that
has already been tested for months, we can consider it stable :-)
It would be nice to know the criteria to get changes into the glibc
during the freeze. Does it only concerns RC bugs? What about important
bugs which only need a very small patch of a few lines? There is a lot
of such bugs in the glibc, but each bug need a lot of time to find which
lines to changes. And we will have time to do that during the freeze :-)
I am going in holidays for three weeks (my plane is in a few hours),
without Internet access. I will try however to find an Internet cafe one
or twice a week, to read my mails and get the status of the glibc. But I
won't be able to make any changes. Therefore, it will be nice if someone
from the release team or the glibc team (but it seems we are all busy/in
holidays) could monitor the status of the glibc to make sure the version
2.3.6-16 get into Etch.
Bye,
Aurelien
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