On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 02:13:44PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > The fact that a core library that's stability is critical to the > distribution as a whole doesn't bother to adhere to this and while > having gone through the hoops of putting in a feature change basically > then proceeded to completely ignore the requirements of said process > (ie they dumped a bunch of stuff on the wiki and haven't bothered to > revisit it and update it since) is some what pathetic in my mind.
As an upstream policy, glibc does not break ABI[1] and we've tried to
adhere to this ever since I started contributing to glibc (which is ~2
years ago). Any ABI break that happens is a bug and the ABI impact
Carlos talks about is mainly due to such bugs being discovered in
rawhide, which again is not very often.
Siddhesh
[1] We did unknowingly break ABI in S/390 in 2.19 and that will likely
be fixed in 2.20 and require at least a partial rebuild (perl and
its modules), but you would have needed the mass rebuild even if
we would have directly introduced a 2.20 release.
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