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Re: glibc 2.24 -- Cutting the branch and my FSF steward position on __malloc_initialize_hook.
On 01/08/2016 17:39, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 08/01/2016 02:19 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>> On 01/08/2016 12:37, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>> If you agree, is there anything else blocking 2.24 being cut today?
>>>
>>
>> I was about to ask Florian to move it to 2.25, so this only missing
>> blocked is 'Revised^2: deprecate major/minor/makedev in sys/types.h'
>> [1] which I created a branch [2] so Zack could check if everything was
>> ok. He just resent the changes [3] last Friday, so we need to decide
>> if the changes should go or not.
>>
>> I am in favor to add them, since there are already reviewed (Paul
>> Eggert has raised some questioning about first patch, but Zack's
>> response seem good enough).
>>
>> [1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-05/msg00274.html
>> [2] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/azanella/deprecate-makedev
>> [3] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-07/msg00674.html
>
> I have followed up on that thread.
>
> My suggestion is to cut 2.24, and then commit Zack's changes to 2.25.
>
> We should cut 2.24 branch on time.
>
Alright, let's defer to 2.25. Carlos, as we agree on IRC you can proceed on creating
the 2.24 branch.