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Re: [PATCH] <bits/syscall.h>: Use an arch-independent system call list on Linux
* Andreas Schwab:
> On Apr 21 2017, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>
>> * Andreas Schwab:
>>
>>> On Apr 21 2017, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> My proposal aims to avoid a build order depedency between the
>>>> backports landing in the distribution kernel, and a glibc rebuild.
>>>
>>> What do you gain over a UAPI headers update in line with the glibc
>>> rebuild?
>>
>> We don't have to maintain a kernel package ourselves, or align our
>> delivery schedule with the kernel team.
>
> The kernel UAPI package is independent of the kernel.
Well, yes, but that's another kernel package to maintain.
And we don't want to push an UAPI headers update in a point release,
so we wouldn't want to replace the other UAPI header package anyway.
The latter would still be used to build applications.