Hi everyone,
This one is mostly for the bug wranglers. There is a new email list and
alias for the musl (sub?)project [1].
List: gentoo-m...@lists.gentoo.org
alias: m...@gentoo.org
musl is a new C standard lib [2]. It adheres scrictly to POSIX, XOPEN,
SUSv3 standards. As a result, a number of packages break with musl.
Usually these are small bugs, like missing headers mandated by POSIX,
but still even a small error breaks a package.
I don't want to burdon the maintainers with these bugs, so I'd like to
ask bug wranglers that if they see a bug due to musl, to please assign
it to me and cc the maintainer. I'll fix the bugs on the musl overlay
[3] and upstream the patches, while keeping the maintainers informed
about what's going on. Don't worry, I won't touch any packages.
Bug wrangling usually proceeds via the metadata.xml, but there really is
no structure there for communicating the above situation.
Refs.
[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened_musl
[2] http://www.musl-libc.org/
[3] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/musl.git
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Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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