Re: F20 Self Contained Change: GLIBC 2.18

From: "Toshio Kuratomi" <a.badger(a)gmail.com&gt; To: "For participants of the Documentation Project" <docs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; 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.

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