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

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jul 30 19:36:34 UTC 2014


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 03:16:30PM -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > * Rawhide tracks glibc master.
> > * Fedora release is branched from Rawhide.
> > * glibc release is made upstream.
> > * Fedora branch is rebased on glibc upstream release
> >   to include ABI guarantees.
> > * Fedora release goes GA.
> > The changes in the rebase should be minor since we've
> > been tracking master the whole time.
> I remember a similar process causing problems in Rawhide earlier and Jared
> Smith talking with the glibc team to ensure that only regular releases hit
> rawhide.

It would be nice if we're careful in staging ABI changes in the glibc master
into Rawhide so it doesn't break. (Possibly something we can do with
Taskotron?)


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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader


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