Hi Sven, On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 06:38:52PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Makes perfect sense, but at the moment it can only be uploaded to > experimental. > > > We're not in a freeze, so I guess that's fair game. > > We're not in a freeze but in the middle of the largest transition in > Debian history[1], and during that a new major glibc version in unstable is > out of the question. > > >> files for now and re-include either when glibc 2.38 is in unstable or > >> when it is in testing. > > > > Why do we need to wait to ask for a glibc-doc_2.38-7 with the patch > > dropped? Does 2.38 have any freeze at the moment? > > Yes. Every new major glibc version requires a transition (requiring > rebuilds of all packages which use @GLIBC_PRIVATE symbols, among other > things), and the one for glibc 2.38[2] has been pending for three > months[3].
Hmmm, I understand. If you want to temporarily drop these pages from manpages-dev, go ahead. Please undrop them when glibc-doc can make a new release. BTW, I guess glibc-doc must match libc6 version? Otherwise, you could have a more recent glibc-doc that drops these pages without upgrading libc6. Are documentation changes frozen in such a transition? > > >> There is also the problem that some derivatives (most notably Ubuntu) > >> are already shipping glibc 2.39 and will have to adjust Breaks/Replaces > >> versions in manpages-dev accordingly. > > > > Hmmm. I suggest they patch glibc-doc to remove those manual pages. > > They have been unsupported for a long time. The last change in > > glibc-doc is from 2013. > > I guess Ubuntu can then drop the glibc-doc package entirely, as they do > not ship the upstream changelogs in it, and after dropping the pthread_* > manpages the package would be empty. TBH, I do not see much value in > these changelogs and will probably uninstall glibc-doc from my systems. Good. Have a lovely day! Alex > > Cheers, > Sven > > > 1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2024/02/msg00005.html > 2. https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/glibc-2.38.html > 3. https://bugs.debian.org/1059852 -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> Looking for a remote C programming job at the moment.
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