Bug#817003: transition: glibc
On 2016-03-07 10:17, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Control: tags -1 confirmed
> Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/glibc-2.22.html
>
> On 07/03/16 01:19, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > 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 glibc 2.22. It is currently
> > available in experimental and has been built successfully on all
> > official architectures except hurd-i386. We have fixed the alpha and
> > hurd-i386 failures in our git, and we believe the hppa, sparc64 and
> > x32 issues are due to a misconfiguration of the experimental chroots
> > (the default compiler in the chroots is gcc-6). Therefore the next
> > upload should build everywhere.
> >
> > As the glibc 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:
> > - apitrace
> > - bro
> > - dante
> > - libnih
> > - libnss-db
> > - unscd
> >
> > Here is the corresponding ben file:
> >
> > title = "glibc";
> > is_affected = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<</;
> > is_good = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.23\)/;
> > is_bad = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.22\)/;
> >
> > In addition to 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. They are very few of them, however packages built with
> > "-fopenmp -ffast-math" might pick a dependency on the new libmvec
> > library on amd64 and x32.
>
> You can go ahead as soon as you're ready.
Thanks for the quick answer, I have just uploaded it to unstable.
Aurelien
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