Control: tags -1 confirmed On 01/07/16 01:41, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: [email protected] > Usertags: transition > > Dear release team, > > We would like to get a transition slot for glibc 2.23. It is currently > available in experimental and has been built successfully on all > official architectures except hurd-i386. We have fixed the hurd-i386 > failure in out git, and we are working on build failures for alpha, hppa > and sparc64. There are due to testsuite issue, mostly in the math parts > and do not look very critical. > > It should be noted that this upload will make a few packages to FTBFS, > mostly due to more precise checking in the floating-point classification > macros (isnan, isinf, ...). In most of the cases the changes just make > existing bugs visible. The list of affected packages is available [1] > (thanks to Martin Michlmayr), and the bugs have been opened for more > than 3 months. > > As the glibc is using symbol versioning, there is no soname change. That > said a few packages are using libc internal symbols and have to be > rebuilt for this transition: > - apitrace > - bro > - dante > - libnih > - libnss-db > - unscd > > Here is the corresponding ben file: > > title = "glibc"; > is_affected = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<</; > is_good = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.24\)/; > is_bad = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.23\)/; > > In addition to that, a few new symbols have been added that might > prevent a few other packages to transition to testing if they pick up > the new symbols, namely the fts64_* and the lgamma* ones. It should not > concerns many packages.
Go ahead. Cheers, Emilio
