[RFC 0/2] Backport 16961 and 16962 to release/2.20/master

[Gabriel F. T. Gomes]

On Tue, 31 May 2016 20:08:18 -0400
"Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 05/31/2016 05:01 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > On 2016-05-27 19:23, Gabriel F. T. Gomes wrote:  
> >> I'd like to backport these patches to ibm/2.20/master.  May I backport this to
> >> release/2.20/master, first?
> >>
> >> They haven't been backported to any stable branches, yet.
> >>
> >> Tested on ppc, ppc64 and ppc64le.  
> > 
> > I am not sure it is a good idea to backport this patch to stable
> > branches, as it add new symbols and a dependency between libm and libc.
> > 
> > In practice that causes issues if a binary started using the old libc
> > starts to dlopen a library which uses libm. It requires the user to
> > restart all processes immediately after the upgrade, I am not sure
> > it's something we want to require in a stable branch.  
> 
> Agreed. Without any further justification I also don't think it's
> appropriate to fix 16961 and 16962 on 2.20 stable branch.
> 

Fair enough.

Thank you!