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

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 08/01/2016 02:19 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> On 01/08/2016 12:37, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> 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
 
I have followed up on that thread.

My suggestion is to cut 2.24, and then commit Zack's changes to 2.25.

We should cut 2.24 branch on time.

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Cheers,
Carlos.