[libvirt PATCH] news: Document that we build with musl

Martin Kletzander mkletzan at redhat.com
Wed Mar 9 11:57:02 UTC 2022


On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 10:36:26AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 11:27:22AM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>> A bit of effort by me and Michal helped make this the case, and it helped us
>> uncover some potential issues.  I am not documenting it as supported or adding
>> an Alpine container into the CI, but since there were some distribution bugs
>> mentioning libvirt issues I thing it would be nice of us to notify those
>> distribution maintainers that read our release news.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  NEWS.rst | 3 +++
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
>> index a5b6106bc2c2..f0270b9bb159 100644
>> --- a/NEWS.rst
>> +++ b/NEWS.rst
>> @@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ v8.2.0 (unreleased)
>>
>>  * **Bug fixes**
>>
>> +  * Both build and tests should now pass on Alpine Linux or any other
>> +    distribution with musl libc.
>
>IMHO even though you don't say it explicitly, anyone reading this
>will interpret it at meaning libvirt is expected to work with
>musl, which is misleading
>

I read your message right after pushing, not seeing that Michal's reply
is just a start of a thread.  Should I add "Note however that such
scenarios are not treated as supported" ?  Or feel free to add whatever
wording seems appropriate.

>Regards,
>Daniel
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