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Bug#886182: transition: glibc 2.26



On 2018-01-02 22:47, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Control: tags -1 confirmed
> 
> On 02/01/18 22:37, 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 2.26. It is available in
> > experimental for one month and a half, and there is no known regression.
> > It has been built successfully on all release architectures, and most
> > other architectures besides kfreebsd-* which do not have build daemons
> > anymore. The failures on hurd-i386 and hppa are being worked on and can
> > be fixed in the upload to sid or later, so 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.]* \(<< 2.27\)/;
> >   is_bad = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.26\)/;
> > 
> > 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. That's mostly the case for libm.so, which added
> > 128-bit floating point support on amd64, i386, and ppc64el. On the
> > libc.so side the new functions are reallocarray, preadv2 and pwritev2,
> > which should not be widely used so far.
> > 
> > Thanks for considering
> 
> Please go ahead.

Thanks. I uploaded it yesterday and it has now been built on all
official architectures.

Aurelien

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B
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