Bug#881860: transition: glibc 2.25
Hi Emilio,
On 2017-11-17 18:14, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/glibc-2.25.html
> Control: tags -1 confirmed
>
> Hi Aurelien,
>
> On 15/11/17 21:27, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > Package: release.debian.org
> > Severity: normal
> > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> > Usertags: transition
> >
> > Dear release team,
> >
> > I would like to get a transition slot for glibc 2.25. It is available
> > in experimental for more than two months, and there is no known
> > regression. It is currently available in experimental and has been built
> > successfully on all official architectures. For the debian-ports
> > architectures the situation is not good as it this version has never
> > been built successfully on alpha and powerpcspe. That said that can be
> > fixed later and I don't think we should block the transition on that.
> >
> > 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
> > - p11-kit
> > - unscd
> >
> > Here is the corresponding ben file:
> > title = "glibc";
> > is_affected = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<</;
> > is_good = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.26\)/;
> > is_bad = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.25\)/;
> >
> > In addition a few new symbols have been added that might prevent a few
> > other packages to migrate to testing until glibc migrates if they pick
> > up the new symbols. Most of them are libm.so to add support for
> > TS 18661-1:2014 math functions, but are currently unlikely to be picked
> > up by some packages. On the libc.so side, the explicit_bzero,
> > gententropy and getrandom might be picked up by a few packages.
>
> Let's do this.
Thanks, I have just uploaded it to sid.
Aurelien
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