Bug#794222: Missing patch
On 2015-08-17 13:17, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote:
> > control: fixed -1 glibc/2.21-0experimental0
> >
> > On 2015-08-14 18:28, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho wrote:
> >> I believe Debian is missing the following patch for ppc64el:
> >> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=a53fbd8e6cd2f69bdfa3431d616a5f332aea6664
> >
> > I have just committed a fix to our SVN in the stable branch. If accepted
> > by the Debian stable release manager, we plan to have it in the next
> > stable point release.
> >
> > Given this bug is fixed in the experimental branch, I am marking it as
> > fixed for this version.
>
> So this is IMO, the wrong thing to do. You should push the patch into
> upstream 2.19 stable and rebase instead of keeping the patch in debian
> svn. Given the patch is already in upstream master it is OK to commit
> to 2.19 stable, and post to libc-stable stating you checked in this
> fix. That way debian gets broader testing of the patches we are using
> instead of the narrower "just debian" users.
If it is fine to push this kind of patch in this branch, I would
certainly do that. I also backported for debian patch b0a3c164. Would
it be possible to also push it to the branch?
Aurelien
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