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Re: glibc-2.8 tarballs?
On Tue, 20 May 2008 23:19:54 +0100 (BST)
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2008, Josh Boyer wrote:
>
> > If distros X, Y, and Z all have a particular patch applied, wouldn't
> > that be an indicator that it might be important enough to actually
> > bring back into the release branch? Seems it would be at least a good
> > conversation point.
>
> You are correct. As long as you can find someone willing to do that.
Indeed. And it's not a trivial effort by any means, given the wide
variation of base glibc versions being used across the distros.
I'll at least try to come up with some kind of matrix on what base
version is being used in which distro. Hopefully that will help as a
starting point.
josh