glibc 2.24 -- Cutting the branch and my FSF steward position on __malloc_initialize_hook.

[Adhemerval Zanella]

On 01/08/2016 12:37, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 08/01/2016 11:22 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> Adhemerval,
>>
>> As an FSF steward my position is that we should _not_ revert the 
>> __malloc_initialize_hook changes, and that we should cut the branch today.
> 
> I see I missed the fact that:
> 
> * malloc: Remove malloc_get_state, malloc_set_state
> 
> Remains on the blocker list.
> 
> I think this needs to be deferred to 2.25 at the open of the branch.
> 
> The primary reason here is that we should be changing ABI in the freeze.
> 
> If you agree, is there anything else blocking 2.24 being cut today?
> 

I was about to ask Florian to move it to 2.25, so this only missing
blocked is 'Revised^2: deprecate major/minor/makedev in sys/types.h'
[1] which I created a branch [2] so Zack could check if everything was
ok.  He just resent the changes [3] last Friday, so we need to decide
if the changes should go or not. 

I am in favor to add them, since there are already reviewed (Paul 
Eggert has raised some questioning about first patch, but Zack's
response seem good enough).

[1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-05/msg00274.html
[2] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/azanella/deprecate-makedev
[3] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-07/msg00674.html