The GNU C Library will be rebased in F21 to match glibc 2.20.

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar  wrote:

>
> The problem with that approach is that lots of bugs go unnoticed until
> very late in rawhide, resulting in those bugs being caught and fixed
> only post-release.  ABI.  That is, any ABI breakages that happen
> are usually bugs.  We try to ensure that with a basic ABI checker in
> the glibc testsuite and in future we'll be looking to enhance our ABI
> checking capabilities.  Taskotron (based on a quick read from the
> wiki) seems to be a good framework for this.
>

Yes.  My concern is that glibc is using Rawhide as their continuous
integration sandbox to shake out bugs as opposed to doing it elsewhere and
just taking care of integration of releases when they are ready.   If this
viewed as a gap that needs to be fixed, that's fine for now.

Rahul
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