Aurelien, On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 12:23:51PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > For a few upstream releases now, some people are maintaining a stable > branch for some versions of the glibc [1], which is followed by eglibc > [2]. This is the case for the 2.11 version we are using in Squeeze, it > is not sure yet which next version will have a long term support. The > branch only consists of patches cherry-picked from HEAD after a few > weeks. Some of the patches in this branch fix already reported bugs [3], > but some of them [4] are likely to be reported later during Squeeze > lifetime. > > I am therefore thinking about uploading the next upstream stable version > (2.11.4 is currently in test period, it will be released in the next > days), similarly to what is currently done for the kernel. What's your > opinion on that, is it something that you would allow?
[3] and [4] look fine, I'd like to see the whole diff against Squeeze, though. Is it reviewable? (Added test cases also seem like a great idea, FWIW.) Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Stable Release Manager `. `' xmpp:p...@0x539.de Wanna-Build Admin `- finger pkern/k...@db.debian.org
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