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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc plans
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 23:16:36
Message-Id: 1160176287.10578.64.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] glibc plans by Mike Frysinger
1 On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 16:28 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > since upstream did not make a glibc-2.4 release of linuxthreads, i thought
3 > they were killing it off with glibc-2.3.6 for good ... seems there is a
4 > release for glibc-2.5 however
5 >
6 > so the plans are this:
7 > - stabilize glibc-2.3.6-r5 / glibc-2.4-r4 and make no more 2.3.6/2.4 updates
8 > - move all of ~arch to glibc-2.5
9 > - cut all glibc 2.3.[345]* versions
10
11 So we'll need to update the no-nptl profiles to be ~sys-libs/glibc-2.4
12 instead of >=sys-libs/glibc-2.4, obviously, but will there be any other
13 changes necessary?
14
15 --
16 Chris Gianelloni
17 Release Engineering Strategic Lead
18 Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
19 Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
20 Gentoo Foundation

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Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc plans Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>