Control: tags -1 confirmed On 14/11/2018 23:10, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > 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 2.28. It is available in > experimental for almost 3 weeks and there is no known issue or > regression. It's also the version shipped in Ubuntu 18.10. It has been > built successfully on all release architectures. It fails to builds on a > few non-release architectures, but only due to a few testsuite issues > that needs to be investigated and which do not looks really worrying. > > 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.]* \(<< 2.29\)/; > is_bad = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.28\)/; > > 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 those symbols are related to C11 thread or > narrowing math functions from TS 18661-1. I doubt they are used in a lot > of packages yet. > > Thanks for considering.
Please go ahead. Emilio