Bug 751955 – sys-libs/glibc-2.32-r2 sys-libs/glibc-2.31-r7 stabilization

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andreas K. Hüttel 2020-10-30 19:48:43 UTC]

Arches please test and stabilize

sys-libs/glibc-2.31-r7
sys-libs/glibc-2.32-r2


About the versions:
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sys-libs/glibc-2.31-r7

Patchset upgrade to existing stable version.

This contains the following fixes:
* Rewrite iconv option parsing [BZ#19519] (bug 611344)
* powerpc: Fix incorrect cache line size load in memset [BZ#26332]
* nptl: Zero-extend arguments to SETXID syscalls [BZ#26248] (bug 736904)
* Disable warnings due to deprecated libselinux symbols used by nss and nscd

Should be unproblematic. Please make test failures only block if they are regressions compared to 2.31-r6.


sys-libs/glibc-2.32-r2

Major version upgrade, still, should be fairly unproblematic.
Includes an updated locale-gen.

Upstream release notes:
https://lwn.net/ml/libc-alpha/c0a3b8f8-675a-4165-27bc-6195dac94b70%40redhat.com/

Upstream wiki:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.32

Gentoo wiki:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Toolchain#glibc-2.32

[Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) 2020-10-30 22:32:59 UTC]

x86 stable

[Comment 2 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) 2020-10-31 10:56:17 UTC]

amd64 stable

[Comment 3 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) 2020-10-31 11:00:29 UTC]

(In reply to Mikle Kolyada from comment #2)
> amd64 stable

hmm, no, ignore me for a while please.

[Comment 4 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) 2020-10-31 11:07:50 UTC]

amd64 stable

[Comment 5 Sam James 2020-11-01 10:39:02 UTC]

arm64 done

[Comment 6 Sam James 2020-11-01 10:40:00 UTC]

arm done

[Comment 7 Sam James 2020-11-05 16:49:13 UTC]

ppc64 done

[Comment 8 Sam James 2020-11-05 16:49:20 UTC]

ppc done

[Comment 9 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) 2020-11-14 09:15:25 UTC]

s390 stable

[Comment 10 Sam James 2020-12-23 05:20:47 UTC]

Obsoleted by bug 759640 (only hppa remains over there).