On 04/07/16 00:48, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On 2016-07-01 09:42, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >> Control: tags -1 confirmed >> >> On 01/07/16 01:41, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >>> Package: release.debian.org >>> Severity: normal >>> User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org >>> Usertags: transition >>> >>> Dear release team, >>> >>> We would like to get a transition slot for glibc 2.23. It is currently >>> available in experimental and has been built successfully on all >>> official architectures except hurd-i386. We have fixed the hurd-i386 >>> failure in out git, and we are working on build failures for alpha, hppa >>> and sparc64. There are due to testsuite issue, mostly in the math parts >>> and do not look very critical. >>> >>> It should be noted that this upload will make a few packages to FTBFS, >>> mostly due to more precise checking in the floating-point classification >>> macros (isnan, isinf, ...). In most of the cases the changes just make >>> existing bugs visible. The list of affected packages is available [1] >>> (thanks to Martin Michlmayr), and the bugs have been opened for more >>> than 3 months. >>> >>> 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 >>> - unscd >>> >>> Here is the corresponding ben file: >>> >>> title = "glibc"; >>> is_affected = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<</; >>> is_good = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.24\)/; >>> is_bad = .depends ~ /libc[0-9.]* \(<< 2.23\)/; >>> >>> In addition to that, a few new symbols have been added that might >>> prevent a few other packages to transition to testing if they pick up >>> the new symbols, namely the fts64_* and the lgamma* ones. It should not >>> concerns many packages. >> >> Go ahead. > > It has just been accepted by dak.
binnmus scheduled. Cheers, Emilio
