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Re: Glibc stable release process (Glibc 2.26.1)
- From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail dot com>
- To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan at linux dot intel dot com>, "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge at gentoo dot org>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>, "Yann E. MORIN" <yann dot morin dot 1998 at free dot fr>, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, Romain Naour <romain dot naour at gmail dot com>, Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, "Gabriel F. T. Gomes" <gabriel at inconstante dot eti dot br>, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 12:23:03 -0700
- Subject: Re: Glibc stable release process (Glibc 2.26.1)
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Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> Agreed and most users don't even look at the packages, they look at
> release notes. I was referring to the QE teams and their convenience of
> backing out individual patches in the spec file as opposed to figuring
> out bisecting patches in git. They're much more comfortable doing the
> former since that is what they do all the time for all packages.
FWIW this is not true in Debian. It sounds like it's mostly a Red Hat
specific thing.
Debian follows stable branches for some packages (e.g., Linux) and
does not for some others (e.g., Git). It comes down to how close
upstream is to Debian's point of view on which patches are important
enough to apply to the stable branch.
I don't know where glibc falls on that spectrum. It may be that
Debian would be able to consume glibc point releases as updates to an
already released Debian release. It's likely that Debian wouldn't.
(That said, I am not saying tagged point releases would *hurt* Debian
--- this reply is only about the question of whether they would help.)
Thanks,
Jonathan