reassign 610475 eglibc severity 610475 wishlist thanks On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 04:54:31PM -0500, Darcoux Christine wrote: > Package: eglibc-source > Version: 2.11.2-8 > > As eglibc needs to be updated, it is time to review the minimum > required kernel version for eglibc. Enabling a newer kernel will > allows glibc to have less workarounds compiled in. This comes at the > obvious cost of not having support for older kernels so a tradeoff is > needed... > > The minimum version supported by eglibc is defined by the > MIN_KERNEL_SUPPORTED which as value 2.6.18 in debian/sysdeps/linux.mk. > One needs to make a lot of changes in the default installation to run > Debian on such an old kernel.
This is always what we do after a stable version of Debian is released. > As udev >= 147 requires a minimum kernel version of 2.6.27 and is not > tested with versions older than 2.6.31 (cf > http://www.spinics.net/lists/hotplug/msg04507.html), I am going to > suggest to follow Fedora 14 which moved from 2.6.18 to 2.6.32. > This reasoning is for Fedora, it doesn't apply to Debian. Not everybody runs udev, especially when you use chroot. We must be able to run a wheezy/sid chroot on a lenny installation, so the new minimum kernel version will be 2.6.26. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110119104305.ga26...@volta.aurel32.net
