Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition
Dear release team, We would like to get a transition slot for glibc 2.24. It is currently available in experimental and has been built successfully on all official architectures. For the debian-ports architectures the situation also looks good except for hppa with multiple regressions in the testsuite due to the use of gcc-6 instead of gcc-5. This is being worked on, and I don't think we should not block the transition on that. The glibc 2.24 is built using gcc-6 instead of gcc-5, the transition is therefore important for the gcc-5 removal. This will be the version shipped with Stretch, so this is the last major change before the release. Of course we plan to improve things by fixing additional bugs, mostly by tracking the upstream 2.24 stable branch as long as possible. 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 - unscd Here is the corresponding ben file: title = "glibc"; is_affected = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<</; is_good = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.25\)/; is_bad = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.24\)/; This version will also make a few packages to fail to build from source due to the removal of deprecated part of the API. The existing binaries still work (the ABI hasn't changed), so there this doesn't cause any issue for upgrades. Bugs have been reported against these packages: #833727 - emacs24: FTBFS with glibc 2.24 #833965 - tcsh: uses deprecated BSD union wait type #833968 - csh: uses deprecated BSD union wait type #833970 - netkit-rsh: uses deprecated BSD union wait type #833971 - xautolock: uses deprecated BSD union wait type #833972 - socks4-server: uses deprecated BSD union wait type #833995 - gridengine: embedded tcsh copy uses deprecated BSD union wait type While it has been done relatively recently they all contain a patch, so I don't think we should consider them as blockers for the transition. In addition a few new symbols have been added that might prevent a few other packages to transition to testing if they pick up the new symbols. They are quick_exit for libc.so and nextdown*/nextup* for libm.so. Thanks for considering, Aurelien -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
