Re: F20 Self Contained Change: GLIBC 2.18

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Toshio Kuratomi" <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "For participants of the Documentation Project" <docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 8:37:10 AM
> Subject: Re: F20 Self Contained Change: GLIBC 2.18
> 
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 04:14:22PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On 2013-07-08 7:52, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > >= Proposed Self Contained Change: GLIBC 2.18 =
> > 
> > ?!
> > 
> > A bump of glibc seems like virtually the definition of a system-wide
> > change. Sure, it's _intended_ to be transparently compatible with
> > 2.17, but we've seen how that goes before.
> >
> +1
> 
> For most libraries I think that an api-compatible version bump wouldn't need
> to even go through the Planning process.  But some things, like glibc, are
> depended upon by so many other things that they need to be system-wide
> changes so that people can be on the lookout for unexpected problems that it
> might cause.

Is it just a matter of "requires a mass rebuild of some sort? If yes, then $X; if no, then $Y" ?

> 
> -Toshio
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