On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 19:19:49 +0100 "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 01:41:25PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar > > > There is however one change that the s/390 > > > folks will find painful - s/390 broke ABI in 2.19 without a proper > > > justification and that is now going to be reverted in 2.20 (and in > > > 2.19, but we don't really care about 2.19 right now). > > > > To expand on this just a bit, the s/390 ABI break was done by the > > s/390 glibc port maintainers and was done intentionally. This > > wasn't a "oops, we accidentally broke the ABI" bug. It was > > something the s/390 maintainers decided was of minimal concern and > > it turns out they were wrong. In my experience, glibc goes above > > and beyond maintaining their software. This s/390 incident is an > > anomaly in an otherwise very controlled and well-run software > > project. > > (FYI) LWN article on this subject: > > https://lwn.net/Articles/605607/ yeah, it can happen, the hardest thing was to come up with a solution that would allow to follow the regular Rawhide build process using koji-shadow. Dan -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
