Bug#1068188: pthread_cond_init.3.gz: conflict with manpages-dev 6.7-1
On 2024-04-01 19:02 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Sven,
>
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 06:38:52PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> Makes perfect sense, but at the moment it can only be uploaded to
>> experimental.
>>
>> > We're not in a freeze, so I guess that's fair game.
>>
>> We're not in a freeze but in the middle of the largest transition in
>> Debian history[1], and during that a new major glibc version in unstable is
>> out of the question.
>>
>> >> files for now and re-include either when glibc 2.38 is in unstable or
>> >> when it is in testing.
>> >
>> > Why do we need to wait to ask for a glibc-doc_2.38-7 with the patch
>> > dropped? Does 2.38 have any freeze at the moment?
>>
>> Yes. Every new major glibc version requires a transition (requiring
>> rebuilds of all packages which use @GLIBC_PRIVATE symbols, among other
>> things), and the one for glibc 2.38[2] has been pending for three
>> months[3].
>
> Hmmm, I understand. If you want to temporarily drop these pages from
> manpages-dev, go ahead. Please undrop them when glibc-doc can make a
> new release. BTW, I guess glibc-doc must match libc6 version?
It is built from the same source package, so yes.
Cheers,
Sven
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