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On 03/07/15 08:20 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> This one is mostly for the bug wranglers. There is a new email list and |
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> alias for the musl (sub?)project [1]. |
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> List: gentoo-musl@l.g.o |
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> alias: musl@g.o |
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> musl is a new C standard lib [2]. It adheres scrictly to POSIX, XOPEN, |
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> SUSv3 standards. As a result, a number of packages break with musl. |
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> Usually these are small bugs, like missing headers mandated by POSIX, |
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> but still even a small error breaks a package. |
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> I don't want to burdon the maintainers with these bugs, so I'd like to |
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> ask bug wranglers that if they see a bug due to musl, to please assign |
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> it to me and cc the maintainer. I'll fix the bugs on the musl overlay |
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> [3] and upstream the patches, while keeping the maintainers informed |
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> about what's going on. Don't worry, I won't touch any packages. |
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> Bug wrangling usually proceeds via the metadata.xml, but there really is |
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> no structure there for communicating the above situation. |
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> Refs. |
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> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened_musl |
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> [2] http://www.musl-libc.org/ |
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> [3] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/musl.git |
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why not make a "musl" component in bugzilla? |