Hi, On 2020-08-26 23:16, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Hi Helmut, > > On 2020-08-26 17:43, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > Hi Vineet, > > > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 02:39:53PM +0000, Vineet Gupta wrote: > > > Following up as ARC glibc port was merged upstream in 2.32. Can we now > > > give > > > rebootstrap a spin for ARC Debian enablement. > > > > That's great news. Unfortunately, it's not that easy yet. rebootstrap > > requires the relevant software to be packaged for Debian and the glibc > > packaging has only reached 2.31 yet. 2.32 is not even in experimental > > yet. > > > > Trying rebootstrap with an experimental glibc is not entirely trivial, > > but possible. > > > > Aurelien (Cced via d-glibc@l.d.o), are there plans to upload 2.32 to > > experimental anytime soon? > > No it's not planned soon. glibc 2.32 has removed support for nsl and > rpc, so we first have to do the transition to their replacement. That is > libnsl, libnss-nis and libnss-nisplus for nsl, and rpcsvc-proto and > libtirpc3 for rpc. The nsl transition is in good state, but the packages > are stuck in NEW. We've started to work on the rpc transition, however > there is a lot more work, we have at least ~50 packages that FTBFS and > need to be manually patched to use libtirpc3 instead of the glibc > implementation. > > We definitely need to use experimental to test those two transitions and > ask for archive rebuilds, so it's not possible to upload a 2.32 package > there. >
Now that the RPC transition is ongoing, I have just uploaded glibc 2.32 to experimental. Regards, Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net