Test version of glibc 2.3.5-10

[Aurelien Jarno]

Robert Millan a écrit :
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 12:00:53AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> 
>>* ugly-hacks have to be transformed into proper fixes.
>>
>>Maybe we can negociate conditionnal patching for the Debian package.
>>dpatch supports that
> 
> 
> I think it's a bad idea, because:
> 
>   - We don't really need it.  If some ugly hack needs to be conditionalised,
>   it can be done in the patch itself (e.g. via __FreeBSD_kernel__).

Well, that's not possible for all of the current hacks, unless the glibc 
guys allow a /usr/include file with a #ifdef __FreeBSD_kernel__, which I 
really doubt.

>   - It'll set a precedent in conditionalising _all_ our porting patches,
>   including those that are clean.  As a consequence, we'll have to periodicaly
>   send patch updates to the glibc package everytime they fail to apply (I've
>   seen this happen in gcc, for example.  But here the patchset is much bigger).

My idea was to setup a conditionnal patch for our current 
"kfreebsd-ugly-hacks.dpatch" only, and uncondionnal patches for other 
dpatch files. Note also that even if the patchset is much bigger than 
for example gcc, it changes less files, most of the changes being new 
files for the sysdeps directory.

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