Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition
Dear release team, I would like to get a transition slot for glibc 2.25. It is available in experimental for more than two months, and there is no known regression. It is currently available in experimental and has been built successfully on all official architectures. For the debian-ports architectures the situation is not good as it this version has never been built successfully on alpha and powerpcspe. That said that can be fixed later and I don't think we should block the transition on that. 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 - p11-kit - unscd Here is the corresponding ben file: title = "glibc"; is_affected = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<</; is_good = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.26\)/; is_bad = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.25\)/; In addition a few new symbols have been added that might prevent a few other packages to migrate to testing until glibc migrates if they pick up the new symbols. Most of them are libm.so to add support for TS 18661-1:2014 math functions, but are currently unlikely to be picked up by some packages. On the libc.so side, the explicit_bzero, gententropy and getrandom might be picked up by a few packages. Thanks for considering, Aurelien -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)