On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 09:05:49 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: [email protected] > Usertags: binnmu > > The upgrade from GLib 2.30 to 2.32 breaks ABI on most non-x86 32-bit > architectures (#674156). Specifically, the deprecated struct GStaticMutex, > and the deprecated structs GStaticRecMutex and GStaticRWLock (each of which > contains a GStaticMutex), change in size on each architecture where the > alignment of a double is greater than the size of a pointer: for us, that's > armel, armhf, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc, plus probably some -ports > architectures. > *sigh*
> Mitigations: > > * it's in a deprecated struct > * the part of GStaticMutex after the initial pointer is no longer used for > anything, so it only really matters when a larger struct contains a > GStaticMutex followed by other members > > Upstream consensus appears to be that since their stable branches 2.32 and > 2.34 have the "new" ABI, we are way past the point where reverting it or > bumping the SONAME would be useful, so we should just consider the new ABI > to be the canonical one. I'm inclined to agree: any package in Debian that > gets regular uploads will have been built against the new GLib by now, > so we'd have to rebuild even more packages to go back. > > Here is a lengthy list of binNMUs. I would like these to be done on all > architectures: our slower architectures are the ones that really need the > rebuild anyway, and if we also rebuild on the fast architectures, then those > packages from this list that are multiarch remain co-installable. > Actually, they won't. They'll have different changelogs. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
