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Re: glibc 2.18 ready?
- From: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
- To: joseph at codesourcery dot com
- Cc: aj at suse dot com, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 09:32:34 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.18 ready?
- References: <5203403D dot 3070305 at suse dot com> <Pine dot LNX dot 4 dot 64 dot 1308081535400 dot 7708 at digraph dot polyomino dot org dot uk>
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 15:37:26 +0000
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2013, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
>> is anything blocking a release of 2.18?
>>
>> I'm not aware of anything, I think we're fine and can solve any of the
>> problems that popped up on the mailing list the last weeks for 2.19.
>
> Indeed. We've had plenty of time for architecture maintainers to verify
> that the ABI is as expected on their architectures. Other issues can as
> needed be fixed on the branch after 2.18, for a 2.18.1 release, as
> appropriate (in general I think we should be more willing to make point
> releases from past release branches when enough fixes have accumulated
> there).
Since I've been travelling this week my plan was to take the final
steps over the weekend and cut the release next Monday.