On Friday, 8 November 2024, 15:49:11 CET, Alexander Kanavin wrote:

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> On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 at 15:39, Christian Eggers <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > On Friday, 8 November 2024, 11:46:03 CET, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> > > You can do anything you want in your private layers, but in public the
> > > options are:
> > > - backport the fixes
> >
> > I tried to backport them, but beside the mentioned merge request I
> > need a number of other patches which feels like creating a zombie.
> > Due to the complexity I cannot prove whether the result is valid.
> >
>
> Yes. This is the problem with LTS releases 'bugfixes only' policy that
> cannot be easily resolved. Do you *have* to use scarthgap, or can you
> transition to styhead?

Currently we are in the process of making a new release, so switching
to a newer OE version is not possible. Switching "only" to a newer
Glib release will let me sleep well tonight.

> > Would this help other users of Scarthgap? I thought that the mixin
> > layers are intended to bring new features to a stable layer. But
> > in this case there is a serious bug (race condition in the memory
> > management routines) of a major piece of software. Every multi
> > threaded application based on Glib is potentially affected. On
> > my system it's NetworkManager, but I also read about Firefox.
> >
>
> LTS mixins isn't about new features. It's more about making it possible to
> 'opt into' potentially disruptive version upgrades. If such an upgrade
> would land in oe-core scarthgap, users would have no choice. With LTS
> mixins they have a choice: take the upgrade, or not. If the issues don't
> affect them and they don't need new features, not taking the update is a
> valid choice.

Thanks for the clarification.

>
> Anyway, you are welcome to prepare such an update for meta-lts-mixins.

Cherry picking the commits from Styhead into our private repo was a no
brainer, so anybody can do. I only thought about other people who may
have the same (almost unfixable) problems with NetworkManager. Providing
a mixin wouldn't really help them because probably nobody would look for
it in such a case.

>
> Alex
>

regards,
Christian



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