Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: glibc versions prior to 2.19-r1

[Sergey Popov]

21.12.2014 22:26, Markos Chandras пишет:
> On 12/21/2014 03:28 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
>> All,
>
>> the following is a comment Mike made about the status of glibc in
>> an earlier thread on this list:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 09:16:52AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> upstream glibc has dropped support for older Linux kernels.  your
>>> choices: - upgrade your kernel - switch to a different C library
>>> - stick with glibc-2.19 for a while
>>>
>>> be warned though there are no plans atm to backport things to
>>> glibc-2.19. this includes security fixes, but more importantly as
>>> time moves on, making newer gcc versions sanely compile glibc.
>>> we've kept older glibc versions around to be nice, and on a part
>>> time basis for cross-compiling, but none of those are given
>>> priority.  i.e. fixes come as people feel like doing them.
>>>
>>> certainly once glibc-2.20+ goes stable, there is no expectation
>>> let alone requirement that packages in the tree be kept working
>>> with older glibc versions.  the maintenance cost there is
>>> unreasonable.
>>>
>>> i guess if you're stuck on old crap, now would be a good time to
>>> start preparing to unstick your crap.  glibc-2.20 will most
>>> likely be in ~arch in the next 6 months. -mike
>
>> Since glibc-2.19-r1 is stable everywhere, what I want to know is
>> whether we can remove versions *prior* to 2.19-r1 at this point.
>
>> If we do, that makes it easy to fix bug 478764 [1], because there
>> would only be three versions of glibc we have to worry about.
>
>> thoughts?
>
>> William
>
>> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478764
>
>
> I suppose it makes sense to drop old glibc ebuilds.
>
>

+1 from me. They also have various security issues(all that are <2.17
are definitely have them)

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