On Feb 16, 2016 2:59 PM, "Ken Moffat" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 10:21:07AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > It looks like we need to change lfs-7.9-rc1 due to security issues:
> >
> > https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-02/msg00416.html
> >
> > This will result in a new patch for glibc.  There are other possible
> > packages that will need patches.  Please hold off any BLFS tagging for
now.
> >
> >   -- Bruce
>
> I wonder if we should wait for 2.23 ?  It looks as if backports will
> have to wait, and might take some time (I only glanced at the inline
> patch, but it looked "somewhat large" and the tests were in an
> attachment to a followup mail.
>
> I did some tags recently, thought I would check my mail before doing
> the next batch - wish I had checked earlier.  Do you want me to
> alter all the 7.9 tags back to 7.8 (seems easier than 'svn revert' ?)
>
> ĸen
> --

February 18th (2 days) was the release date put out there last month. I
honestly am on the fence about this one, however I am leaning towards
waiting for 2.23.
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