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Re: glibc 2.19 status?
- From: Robert Schiele <rschiele at gmail dot com>
- To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>, Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:09:38 +0100
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.19 status?
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> wrote:
> I don't mind counting internal distributions. My point is that it is
> probably not practical to expect release branches to be actively
> maintained by the existing set of maintainers if none of them actually
> use these branches actively in their distributions. If there are
> internal distributions that care about these branches then I'd like to
> see them come forward and volunteer time to work with the community
> and maybe even do the backports.
If I find something that I need and is not specific to our
distribution or exotic hardware I will definitely send that upstream.
So far that was not yet the case for glibc since the content there was
fine or in case there was a problem someone else did the fixing
already before I noticed.
Robert