Re: freeze exception for glibc 2.7-13
Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> The changelog reads:
>
> Changes:
> glibc (2.7-13) unstable; urgency=low
> .
> [ Aurelien Jarno ]
> * Update Brazilian Portuguese debconf translation, by Felipe Augusto van de
> Wiel. Closes: #485381.
> * patches/any/cvs-getaddrinfo.diff: new patch from CVS to correctly
> initialize internal resolver structures in getaddrinfo(). Closes:
> #489586.
> * Update Romanian debconf translation, by Eddy Petrişor. Closes: #488734.
> * any/cvs-tst-regex.diff: new patch from CVS to add a timeout to tst-regex.
> Closes: #489856.
> * control.in/main: build depends on gcc-4.3 (>= 4.3.0-7), remove
> mips/local-gcc-ice.diff.
> * Update Swedish debconf translation, by Martin Bagge. Closes: #492191.
> * Revert the changes to patches/hppa/cvs-atomic.diff, it was not the cause
> of the "tst-regex problem".
> * hppa/cvs-lowlevellock.diff: new patch from upstream to fix build of NPTL
> glibc on hppa. Closes: #486589.
> .
> [ Petr Salinger]
> * debian/sysdeps/kfreebsd.mk: also use the bsm/ directory from kernel
> headers.
> * kfreebsd/local-sysdeps.diff: update to revision 2265 (from glibc-bsd).
> * Disable call to "GL(dl_wait_lookup_done)" in linuxthreads builds. Proper
> solution still have to be created. Stop crashes in mean time. See #489066.
> .
> [ Samuel Thibault ]
> * patches/hurd-i386/cvs-MSG_NOSIGNAL.diff: New patch to implement
> MSG_NOSIGNAL.
> * patches/hurd-i386/local-msg-nosignal.diff: Forcibly set MSG_NOSIGNAL to 0
> until pfinet gets recompiled. Only apply on hurd-i386.
> * Use gcc-4.3 on hurd-i386.
> * patches/hurd-i386/cvs-open_2.diff: New patch to implement __open_2
> and __openat_2. Together with kfreebsd update closes: #489357.
> * patches/hurd-i386/local-pthread_types.diff: New patch to drag pthread
> types from hurd headers. Bump the hurd-dev dependency version
> accordingly.
> * patches/hurd-i386/cvs-fcntl-types.diff: New patch to include
> <sys/type.h> from <bits/fcntl.h> like on Linux. Fixes a lot of FTBFS on
> hurd.
> * patches/hurd-i386/local-tls.diff: Resync with upstream.
> * patches/hurd-i386/local-tls-support.diff: Make tls.h also include
> <stdint.h> and <bits/libc-lock.h> include <tls.h>, like on Linux.
> * patches/hurd-i386/submitted-trivial.diff: Remove, thanks to updated tls.h.
> .
> [ Pierre Habouzit ]
> * Cherry-pick upstream fixes with respect to locale rwlocks, merge them into
> patches/any/cvs-strerror_r.diff. Closes: #489906.
>
>
> Petr and Samuel changes only change code that is only built on the
> Hurd and kFreeBSD. This glibc contains the fix for the horrible glibc
> FTBFS on hppa, and you can see on buildd.org that it indeed built fine.
>
> I would like to see this glibc life in unstable not be too long (IOW
> not the usual age-days 20 we usually have ;p), because many packages
> (like cmake) need a fixed glibc to go in.
unblocked
Cheers
Luk
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