Re: Time for another round of releases

[Ludovic Courtès]

Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès, on Tue 04 Oct 2016 15:22:32 +0200, wrote:
>> > Yes, but our current glibc tree is based on glibc 2.22, as guix needs
>> > it.
>> 
>> FWIW Guix follows upstream glibc releases for GNU/Linux (we’re currently
>> in the process of switching from 2.23 to 2.24), and we’d prefer to have
>> the same version on both GNU/Linux and GNU/Hurd, modulo the
>> Hurd-specific patches.
>
> So it's now 2.23.  When Guix switched to 2.24 for Linux, please tell me,
> I'll update the tree to 2.24.

It’s already done in a branch that is being built (hopefully merged
within a week or so).

So you could go ahead and just let us know which tarballs or commits we
should be using for each version.  Is that fine with you?  Manolis,
WDYT?

Thanks!

Ludo’.