Bug#881860: transition: glibc 2.25

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

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.

Cheers,
Emilio