Subject: [bug#29406] [PATCH core-updates]: Add selected upstream fixes for glibc 2.26.

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:42:04 -0500

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 10:02:04PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Marius Bakke <[email-masked]> skribis:
> 
> > Typical: The 2.26 branch just got 10 new commits that look important:
> >
> > https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/release/2.26/master
> >
> > Especially the malloc() fixes.  Should we pick them while we still have
> > time, or update the snapshot?
> 
> Your call!  :-)
> 
> Maybe we can focus on building more on the branch, and revisit this
> issue when we’re ready to build the whole branch.  (Or are we ready
> yet?)
> 
> WDYT?

I think there's not much to do without at least some of the glibc
patches, because icu4c fails to build.

I think we should take all the glibc patches, try building core, then
everything.