Hi, Glibc upstream announced recently that the glibc 2.7 will be tagged and released very soon (probably on Oct 17[0]). This release (for what I've seen) has a lot of bugfixes (on nscd, locales, and many issues we reported in Debian). It also has the stubs to use eventfd's and timerfd's (new linux system calls). We initially thought this release would happen a lot later, and weren't sure that we could even contemplate the idea of packaging it for lenny. It seems it may change. I'm hence warning that the glibc team is considering (given enough testing in experimental) pushing a 2.7 glibc for lenny. This is not for tomorrow, but I prefer to warn so that the release team can anticipate things. I hope that we will be able to begin glibc 2.7 uploads (in experimental) during November, depending on how well the builds will work (or even build) we will be able to have more insight on a date for an unstable upload. Cheers, [0] http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2007-10/msg00010.html -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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