On Wednesday, December 22, 2021 11:00:12 AM EST Wietse Venema wrote: > Scott Kitterman: > > > > Any chance of the glibc-2.34 fix being in there too? We haven't > > > > switched, so not a rush directly for Debian, but some of our > > > > downstreams have, so it would be nice to see. > > > > > > What is 'the glibc-2.34 fix'? closefrom() ? > > Thanks for confirming that this is the closefrom portability fix. > > > > I have been backporting GLIBC workarounds for broken DNSSEC support > > > > > > and they seem to be ignored. Example from Postfix 3.5.1: > > > Workaround for broken DANE support after an incompatible > > > change in GLIBC 2.31. THIS AVOIDS THE NEED FOR NEW OPTIONS > > > IN /etc/resolv.conf. Files: dns/dns.h, dns/dns_lookup.c. > > > > > > I was not impressed with the lack of uptake by distros. That makes > > > me less motivated to spend time backporting GLIBC workarounds for > > > trivial problems like closefrom. > > Has this been adopted, or do people on 3.5.* still have to tinker with > their /etc/resolv.conf files?
Debian hasn't upgraded to 2.34 yet, so I can't say. I've pinged the Ubuntu people that did the patch there for feedback. Hopefully they or maybe someone from Fedora, Gentoo, etc. can tell us. Scott K
