Re: [PATCH hurd 0/6] Add file record locking support

[Samuel Thibault]

Svante Signell, le Fri 09 Jan 2015 10:54:32 +0100, a écrit :
> e.g. Debian Hurd patches are not even admitted to be used to make a new
> release of Debian glibc until the Debian maintainer decides :( Now
> during the freeze nothing happens with glibc, and e.g. the symbol file
> update lingers in -ports.

Well, I don't see where this is posing a problem. You can take the
source from the alioth repository.

> Can glibc (upstream and/or Debian) be split in
> parts, like common, linux related, hurd related, kfreebsd related, etc,
> and making point releases of these separate parts?

That would be quite more tedious to maintain, I doubt it'd ever happen.

> Is moving to devuan or joining guix/dmd/Guixotic a better alternative?

That would probably put even more work on our shoulders.

Samuel