Bug#913768: transition: glibc
Control: tags -1 confirmed
On 14/11/2018 23:10, 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 2.28. It is available in
> experimental for almost 3 weeks and there is no known issue or
> regression. It's also the version shipped in Ubuntu 18.10. It has been
> built successfully on all release architectures. It fails to builds on a
> few non-release architectures, but only due to a few testsuite issues
> that needs to be investigated and which do not looks really worrying.
>
> 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.]* \(<< 2.29\)/;
> is_bad = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.28\)/;
>
> 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 those symbols are related to C11 thread or
> narrowing math functions from TS 18661-1. I doubt they are used in a lot
> of packages yet.
>
> Thanks for considering.
Please go ahead.
Emilio
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