glibc 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu1 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

glibc (2.8~20080505-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version, built from a prerelease tarball.
    - Remove patches applied upstream: amd64/cvs-vdso_clock_gettime.diff,
      hppa/cvs-atomic.diff, hppa/hppalll.diff, sparc/submitted-v9v2.diff,
      all/cvs-gai_conf.diff, any/cvs-epoll_h.diff, any/cvs-ether_line.diff,
      any/cvs-ethertype.diff, any/cvs-fchmodat.diff, any/cvs-gcc-4.3.diff,
      any/cvs-iconv-iso2022jp-loop-bug.diff, any/cvs-rfc3484.diff,
      any/cvs-sched_h.diff, any/cvs-strtod.diff, any/cvs-tzfile.diff,
      any/cvs-vfscanf.diff, any/cvs-wchar_h.diff,
      any/cvs-sunrpc_rpc_thread.diff, any/cvs-strerror_r.diff,
      any/cvs-short-for-fnstsw.diff, any/local-strfry.diff,
      any/submitted-ieee754_h.diff, any/submitted-link-local_resolver.diff.
    - Update patches: i386/submitted-i686-timing.diff.
  * debian/*.symbols*:
    - Add new symbols.
    - Remove GLIBC_PRIVATE symbols not found anymore in 2.8:
      _dl_tls_get_addr_soft@GLIBC_PRIVATE, __nss_services_lookup@GLIBC_PRIVATE.
  * debhelper.in/libc.install: Relax file location for snapshot builds.

glibc (2.7-11ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Merge with Debian (r2892:2919).
    - Packaging:
      + External tzdata
      + Use external locale information
      + Addition of Niagara and Niagara2 optimised libraries
      + GFDL Documentation added back in, build glibc-doc from this source.
      + Transition from /usr/include/ppc64-linux-gnu to powerpc64-linux-gnu
      + Use dpkg triggers for ldconfig
      + Do not die if extra libc libraries or symlinks found
      + Do not do a test run of nscd when starting
      + Only apply patches we actually use in Ubuntu
      + Use /lib and /usr/lib for amd64
      + amd64 biarch is i686, not i486.
      + Non-optimised i386 glibc is Xen-friendly.
      + Support sparcv9v, v9v2, 64b, 64v, 64v2
      + Add support for lpia.
      + Call `sync' before building the tarball of supported locales.
      + Downgrade priority of debconf questions for RELEASE_UPGRADE_MODE=desktop.
      + Use the package settings for *FLAGS, not the settings from the env.
      + Fail the build when regressions are detected in the testsuite.
      + Build with GCC-4.3 on amd64 and i386.
    - Patches:
      + sparc/submitted-v9v2
      + hppa/hppalll
      + Applied any/local-ipv6-lookup.
      + Not applied any/local-sysctl.
  * any/cvs-short-for-fnstsw.diff: Backport from the trunk, fix build failure
    with binutils from trunk.

glibc (2.7-11) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  [ Aurelien Jarno ]
  * Reenable testsuite on MIPS SB1 platforms.
  * mips/cvs-memory-barriers.diff: new patch from CVS to fix test_and_set.
  * mips/cvs-fcsr.diff: new patch from CVS to fix floating point control
    register accesses.
  * local/manpages/ld.so.8: fix libraries search order.  Closes: #473458.
  * Update Finish debconf translation, by Esko Arajärvi.  Closes: #473802.
  * Replace patches/mips/submitted-mipsn32.diff by the version merged
    upstream.
  * patches/hppa/cvs-atomic.diff: new patch from upstream to fix atomic
    locks witch gcc-4.3.
  * patches/any/cvs-rfc3484.diff: update tests from CVS.  Closes: #474226.
  * patches/localedata/locale-shs_CA.diff: add Secwepemctsín from CVS.
  * debhelper.in/libc-prof.README.Debian: new file to explain how to use
    libc-prof.  Closes: #442858.
  * patches/any/cvs-ethertype.diff: new patch to add new ETHERTYPE_*
    definitions.  Closes: #474171.
  * sysdeps/depflags.pl: conflicts with tzdata-etch.
  * kfreebsd/local-sysdeps.diff: update to revision 2163 (from glibc-bsd).
  * patches/s390/submitted-nexttowardf.diff: fix IEEE exceptions raising in
    nexttowardf() on s390 with gcc-4.3.
  * sysdeps/arm.mk, sysdeps/s390.mk, control.in/main: use gcc-4.3 on arm
    and s390.

  [ Pierre Habouzit ]
  * Add any/cvs-strerror_r.diff to make strerror_r actually thread safe.
    Closes: #456531.

  [ Samuel Thibault ]
  * patches/hurd-i386/cvs-termios.diff: new patch to revamp ioctls/termios
  bits.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden>   Fri, 09 May 2008 14:22:01 +0200