Re: Status of merging distribution patches

[Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>]

On 07/05/2013 12:26 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> One area where we haven't seen as much progress as I'd like is merging the
> accumulated piles of distribution patches back into glibc (except in those
> cases where a patch is for some inherently distribution-specific purpose,
> e.g. compatibility with ABI mistakes in past distribution binaries).
>
> I've again updated the list of changes to consider for merging from
> EGLIBC, linked from
> <http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Development_Todo/Master#Distribution_merging>.
> That wiki page section lists what I think are the main distribution trees
> from which patches need merging - note that I've included gnulib and the
> separate GNU Hurd glibc trees in what I consider to be distributions.  Do
> maintainers of those various trees have any similar todo lists of the
> individual changes to consider for glibc and plans regarding how to merge
> those changes?

Thanks.

I've added a link to the openSUSE glibc package.

> (Much the same also applies to distribution bug trackers - it would be
> useful there as well for people to go through bugs and file them in glibc
> Bugzilla if they represent valid well-defined bugs that are still present
> in current unmodified glibc sources and aren't currently in glibc
> Bugzilla.)

We still have a few patches in package that are in glibc bugzilla but 
not incorporated.

I've done last year a large round of integrating patches - still there 
are some more that need merging.

Andreas
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