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Bug#913768: transition: glibc



On 2018-11-28 13:07, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks, I have just uploaded it.

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B
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