glibc 2.34 is coming to impish tomorrow

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

Unfortunately, a bug (
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/1942276) meant that
I've had to upload glibc again. This will trigger all the tests in the
world again, but I believe it's both possible and reasonable to not
actually run all these tests. We should definitely run a subset, like
letting a random 10% of the tests run would make sense to me, although I
don't know how to do that . Hopefully someone else does :)

Cheers,
mwh

On Tue, 17 Aug 2021 at 10:12, Michael Hudson-Doyle <
michael.hudson at canonical.com> wrote:

> So glibc 2.34 is now in impish proposed and all the autopkgtests have run.
> I've started a discourse thread to coordinate handling the fallout:
> https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/migrating-glibc-2-34/23749
>
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 at 11:49, Michael Hudson-Doyle <
> michael.hudson at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> This is just a bit of advance notice that we'll be uploading the new
>> release of glibc, 2.34, to impish in about 24 hours and are hoping we can
>> get it migrated before feature freeze next week. So expect autopkgtest
>> queues to be a bit clogged for a while.
>>
>> As Matthias mailed yesterday we have done a test rebuild with the new
>> glibc and while it causes a few build failures we're working through there
>> is no evidence of trouble running existing binaries so hopefully the new
>> version won't be too disruptive. But finding that out is what all
>> those autopkgtests are for :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> mwh
>>
>
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