Source: glibc Version: 2.24-11 Severity: normal The upstream release notes state:
"The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all architectures." ... however, on upgrade to Debian Stretch (currently testing as of today), on a machine running OpenVZ 6 (2.6.32 kernel based, and supported until 2019), you are given the warning: "This version of the GNU libc requires kernel version 3.2 or later. Older versions might work but are not officially supported. Please consider upgrading your kernel." This seems somewhat misleading, and implies that upstream do not support 2.6.32, even on amd64/i386. If you feel that a warning is still warranted, then perhaps something this would be more informative: "This version of the GNU libc can be used with kernel version 2.6.32 or later on i386 and amd64 (and version 3.2 on most other architectures). Please be aware that the Debian maintainers do not routinely test the GNU libc packages with kernel verisons other than those included with the Debian release which they are part of." -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-rc8-drm-tip+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en_US (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
