Re: Fwd: The GNU C Library version 2.28 is now available

[Samuel Thibault]

Samuel Thibault, le jeu. 02 août 2018 00:10:01 +0200, a ecrit:
> David Michael, le mer. 01 août 2018 18:05:50 -0400, a ecrit:
> > On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Samuel Thibault
> > <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> wrote:
> > > About glibc repositories, we should upgrade the Hurd glibc repository to
> > > 2.28, when would that be fine for people using it? (I'm thinking about
> > > Guix & Arch people)
> > 
> > Now that there is an upstream release with the Hurd patches (thanks
> > for doing that), my preference as a user would be to switch from the
> > Savannah repo to the upstream release tarball and apply any individual
> > patches required by Hurd as they pop up.
> > 
> > Do you think Hurd-specific patches are appropriate to send to
> > libc-stable for backporting to the upstream release branches?
> 
> I don't know actually. My wild guess is that upstream will be fine to
> backport anything we feel is really needed, as long as it is limited to
> Hurd code. For more invasive changes, it would make sense to have a
> branch in the hurd repo with normal, non-topgit, cherry-picks.

I have already cherry-picked one commit into release/2.28/master :)

Samuel