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Re: Glibc stable release process (Glibc 2.26.1)
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, siddhesh at sourceware dot org, "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge at gentoo dot org>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Cc: 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>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan at linux dot intel dot com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 07:08:16 -0700
- Subject: Re: Glibc stable release process (Glibc 2.26.1)
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On 10/09/2017 06:57 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 10/03/2017 06:53 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>> On Tuesday 03 October 2017 12:52 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> We continuously rebase Fedora on top of the upstream stable
>>> release branch for that Fedora release (but we do not switch
>>> branches within a release).
>>
>> Interesting that the Fedora community actually agreed to do that
>> because there was a significant amount of flaming in the past due
>> to this very reason.
>
> The Fedora community isn't really in a position to complain. We
> didn't have much choice because maintaining patches in RPM is so
> painful. I've been working on new patch management tools with spec
> file auto-editing and other frills, so the pendulum might well swing
> into the other direction in the future.
There isn't even any complaints. We took this to FESCo for an official
ruling, and I wrote up the rationale.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Glibc#Usage_of_Fedora_Rawhide
This is slightly on topic, that Fedora doesn't need specially named
point releases.
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Cheers,
Carlos.