[libvirt PATCH] docs: add news item about GNULIB removal
Andrea Bolognani
abologna at redhat.com
Fri Feb 7 17:18:59 UTC 2020
On Fri, 2020-02-07 at 16:21 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> While we have CI testing coverage for many platforms, we don't test any
> non-GLibC based Linux and there are other non-Linux platforms we don't
It's "glibc", not "GLibC".
> officially target, both of which might hit regressions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
> ---
> docs/news.xml | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
> index f567a1182e..54ccc31abe 100644
> --- a/docs/news.xml
> +++ b/docs/news.xml
> @@ -84,6 +84,25 @@
> </change>
> </section>
> <section title="Improvements">
This belongs quite squarely in the "Packaging changes" section IMHO.
> + <change>
> + <summary>
> + use of GNULIB has been completely eliminated
Looking at the website and the git repository, it's either "gnulib"
or "Gnulib", never "GNULIB".
> + </summary>
> + <description>
> + Historically libvirt has embedded GNULIB to provide fixes for
> + various platform portability problems. This usage has now been
> + eliminated and alternative approaches for platform portability
> + problems adopted where required. This has been validated on the
> + set of platforms covered by automated CI build testing: Fedora
> + 30, 31 and rawhide; CentOS 7 and 8; Debian 9 and 10; Ubuntu 18.04;
> + FreeBSD 11 and 12; Mingw-w64; macOS 10.14 with XCode 10.3 and 11.3.
I think listing all targets is a bit excessive. Also note that we
don't actually have CentOS 8 CI coverage yet.
> + Other Linux distros of a similar vintage using GLibC are expected
> + to work. Linux distros using non-GLibC packages, and other
> + non-Linux platforms may encounter regressions when building this
> + release. Please report any build problems encountered back to the
> + project maintainers for resolution.
Should we include the caveat that we're still following our platform
compatibility guidelines?
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
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