Bug#750020: transition: eglibc

[Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition

Dear release team,

We would like to get a transition slot for eglibc 2.19. It is currently
uploaded in experimental and has been built successfully on all
architectures except armel and armhf. We have done manual builds on
these architectures and they have been successful.

As the libc is using symbol versioning, there is no soname change. That
said a few packages are using libc internal symbols and have to be
rebuilt for this transition:

- dante
- libnih
- libnss-db
- unscd

In addition it should be noted that a few new symbols have been added
that might prevent a few other packages to transition to testing if they
pick up the new symbols. This time the amount of new symbols is quite
limited, so it should not concern a lot of packages:

- getrlimit64 and setrlimit64 on mips and mipsel
- longjmp, __longjmp_chk, siglongjmp, sigsetjmp, setjmp and getcontext
  on s390x

Thanks,
Aurelien



Ben file:

title = "eglibc";
is_affected = .depends ~ "/libc[0-9.]* \(<</";
is_good = .depends ~ "/libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.20\)/";
is_bad = .depends ~ "/libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.19\)/";


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash