Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-gl...@lists.debian.org Control: affects -1 + src:glibc
Dear release team, I would like to get a transition slot for glibc 2.37. It has been available in experimental for a bit more than a month and does not have any known issue. It has been built successfully on all release architectures and many ports architectures (technically 2.37-2 hasn't been built yet on mipsel and mips64el due to the buildds lagging, but 2.37-1 has been built successfully). As 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. Here is the corresponding ben file: title = "glibc"; is_affected = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<</; is_good = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.38\)/; is_bad = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.37\)/; Only a single symbol has been added to 32-bit architectures using non 64-bit time_t (i.e. for release architectures: armel armhf mipsel). This symbol is only used when building packages with -D_TIME_BITS=64, so its usage is very limited. 64-bit architectures do not have new symbols. Therefore it's very unlikely that glibc 2.37 blocks the migration of other packages to testing during the transition. Thanks for considering. Regards, Aurelien