-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 12/21/2014 03:28 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > the following is a comment Mike made about the status of glibc in > an earlier thread on this list: > > On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 09:16:52AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> upstream glibc has dropped support for older Linux kernels. your >> choices: - upgrade your kernel - switch to a different C library >> - stick with glibc-2.19 for a while >> >> be warned though there are no plans atm to backport things to >> glibc-2.19. this includes security fixes, but more importantly as >> time moves on, making newer gcc versions sanely compile glibc. >> we've kept older glibc versions around to be nice, and on a part >> time basis for cross-compiling, but none of those are given >> priority. i.e. fixes come as people feel like doing them. >> >> certainly once glibc-2.20+ goes stable, there is no expectation >> let alone requirement that packages in the tree be kept working >> with older glibc versions. the maintenance cost there is >> unreasonable. >> >> i guess if you're stuck on old crap, now would be a good time to >> start preparing to unstick your crap. glibc-2.20 will most >> likely be in ~arch in the next 6 months. -mike > > Since glibc-2.19-r1 is stable everywhere, what I want to know is > whether we can remove versions *prior* to 2.19-r1 at this point. > > If we do, that makes it easy to fix bug 478764 [1], because there > would only be three versions of glibc we have to worry about. > > thoughts? > > William > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478764 >
I suppose it makes sense to drop old glibc ebuilds. - -- Regards, Markos Chandras -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQF8BAEBCgBmBQJUlx7ZXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRGRDlGMzA4MUI2MzBDODQ4RDBGOEYxMjQx RjEwRUQ0QjgxREVCRjE5AAoJEB8Q7UuB3r8ZCJ4H/0coofEKcsika34IaHI609gR Q2ZOhmcgV82wu6zwpIRVQaIDFCfo170c1g6OfffaaVLpu6VrvlN0lOxA0s2fPVuk pyf3ZjmElVyhncPtfCBIlygfvdabEv5UCEi8dgOe59tz6SyXarvRdKdQOsWy8yRx 38LGDH/vcmlcTbVKXfKuNPZ52hhfTspw7/QDxIqwufDqXaFV/sP+nLRTWKlK293I twO6biE3m60ggwaEyL5+LT4ZQZTQ2MnfDpBD8Rr1+xPwIj7rvgbJCVul1B1NZq6m gxYS078K8SeSEroum4wrZKj6OI8oIAic7Apa9wpp+tDXPOMYYn7SxvNtOBVpa/w= =rlNJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
