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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc 2.23 and willfully breaking stuff
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 16:28:25
Message-Id: 57165C9B.5080308@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc 2.23 and willfully breaking stuff by Alexis Ballier
1 On 4/19/16 8:07 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote:
2 > On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 01:41:06 -0400
3 > Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> On 19 Apr 2016 04:21, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
6 >>> Ühel kenal päeval, E, 18.04.2016 kell 12:38, kirjutas Mike
7 >>> Frysinger:
8 >>>> On 16 Apr 2016 09:23, Patrick Lauer wrote:
9 >>>>> So why on earth are we applying a random patch that upstream is
10 >>>>> not using
11 >>>>
12 >>>> not everyone uses glibc, and glibc *is* moving in this
13 >>>> direction. Gentoo
14 >>>> is simply accelerating the change ... otherwise glibc will take
15 >>>> longer to do the actual migration.
16 >>>
17 >>> You don't need to break everyone's ~arch for dubious glibc benefits,
18 >>> which could be done by a p.masked version and a tinderbox run.
19 >>> I am not your tinderbox dummy having to waste time on this to
20 >>> maintain my own ~arch stuff.
21 >>
22 >> i waited until the known bugs died down. i don't have access to a
23 >> tinderbox system myself.
24 >
25 > just for the record: I dont have access to a tinderbox system myself
26 > either but I usually ask Toralf by ccing him on bugs where I need it
27 > and he is pretty diligent on providing data. kudos to him.
28 >
29
30 +1
31
32 yeah we need to buy him a drink or something really. i'd say make him a
33 dev but i'm not sure i'd inflict that punishment on anyone :P
34
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36 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
37 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc 2.23 and willfully breaking stuff Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o>