Re: Status of merging distribution patches

[Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>]

On 05/07/13 14:47, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 12:14:58AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> For Fedora and RHEL we are working hard to make sure everything goes
>> upstream first. I'd say we are down to ~30 patches in Fedora 19 against
>> glibc 2.17. I'm hoping we close that gap to something even smaller for
>> Fedora 20 (glibc 2.18 based). That should help ensure other rpm-based 
>> distros also have a small set of patches.
> 
> There are 39 patches in rawhide. of which some could be upstreamed.  I
> did a cursory look through and there are a few that have upstream bug
> reports too, so I'll just need to ppost them again.  I don't know for
> sure, but I think some were posted in the past and they simply fell
> off the radar later.
> 
>> The patches to merge are all documented in Fedora's glibc.spec file.
>> Any patches in the 0-0999 range are needing merging and I'll make sure
>> we set aside time to move those upstream.
> 
> ... and 2000-2999 that were posted upstream and not merged yet.
> There's 8 of those.
> 

I know a few of those that have been submitted here fall in the category
of no-one being able to replicate on their systems, but various
distribution users report them fixing the issue.  For example, the patch
for BZ#9954 (getaddrinfo assertion triggered without reason).

For those would it be worth accepting the patch based on major distros
carrying it for a reported bug fix (and the reasoning behind the change
it being sound), even if we can not replicate?

Allan