On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 03:25:29PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Up to today jessie did see updates for the kernel headers, eglibc, and > GCC.
What a wonderful coordination with the release team. Quoting the last mail from them on the mailing list: | As for Squeeze, we'd ask that you co-ordinate particularly large | transitions or changes; if your plans involve major toolchain changes or | otherwise have the potential to cause problems in unstable for a long | time (e.g. due to FTBFS issues), please talk to us. > == (e)glibc 2.17 == > > glibc's version bump to 2.17 should be mostly uneventful, with the > exception of a few more compiler warnings and errors, and the long > overdue removal of gets() from the API. FTBFS bugs for the above > have already been filed, and patches submitted for many of the new > build failures. Even if I have to admit I currently don't have a lot of time, it would have been nice to keep the other people in the team in the loop about such an upload. > The other unfortunate issue with the glibc bump to 2.17 is that it > has left kfreebsd behind with some pthread mutex changes that need > some love from BSD porters to untangle. We had hoped that leaving > it FTBFS in experimental for several months and gently pinging would > have been enough of a hint, but we can't wait forever either. For a > porter who knows FreeBSD and pthreads inside out, the work to fix > glibc 2.17 on kfreebsd should be trivial. Patches welcome. I haven't been able to find mails about that on the debian-bsd mailing list. Could you please point me to them? [...] > For the Debian glibc maintainers, Adam Conrad Now I understand why I was not in the loop, I am not member of the team anymore. Glad to learn that in such an email. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130507154851.gi4...@ohm.aurel32.net
