On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 at 15:39, Christian Eggers <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> On Friday, 8 November 2024, 11:46:03 CET, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> > You can do anything you want in your private layers, but in public the
> > options are:
> > - backport the fixes
>
> I tried to backport them, but beside the mentioned merge request I
> need a number of other patches which feels like creating a zombie.
> Due to the complexity I cannot prove whether the result is valid.
>

Yes. This is the problem with LTS releases 'bugfixes only' policy that
cannot be easily resolved. Do you *have* to use scarthgap, or can you
transition to styhead?


> Would this help other users of Scarthgap? I thought that the mixin
> layers are intended to bring new features to a stable layer. But
> in this case there is a serious bug (race condition in the memory
> management routines) of a major piece of software. Every multi
> threaded application based on Glib is potentially affected. On
> my system it's NetworkManager, but I also read about Firefox.
>

LTS mixins isn't about new features. It's more about making it possible to
'opt into' potentially disruptive version upgrades. If such an upgrade
would land in oe-core scarthgap, users would have no choice. With LTS
mixins they have a choice: take the upgrade, or not. If the issues don't
affect them and they don't need new features, not taking the update is a
valid choice.

Anyway, you are welcome to prepare such an update for meta-lts-mixins.

Alex
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