Subject: [bug#60076] [PATCH RFC] Revert "gnu: glibc: Remove old versions."

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 16:03:38 -0500

Hi Marius,

Marius Bakke <[email-masked]> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> skriver:
>
>> This reinstates glibc 2.22 through 2.28, by reverting commit
>> ebd1ba713cbefc9ad5dac609255e1344a328e360 ("gnu: glibc: Remove old versions."),
>> adding two patches removed in d2bb4847b96e51b71126778bb16daa7674a6690c ("gnu:
>> Remove leftover patch files."), and partially reverting
>> 1feca4be5296d7f0c0e2269ccb612cadded6573b ("gnu: glibc: Remove versions 2.27
>> and 2.28.").
>>
>> Rationale: Keeping older glibc versions around is useful when experimenting
>> with 'package-with-c-toolchain'.
>
> IMO it's better to add these to 'guix-past'[0] instead of keeping them
> in the main channel.
>
> [0]: https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/guix-past

Good suggestion.  If someone shows interested in the series we could try
to have these contributed to guix-past.  Otherwise if there's no
interest I'll close the ticket without merge in 2 weeks time.

Thanks for tipping in!

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Thanks,
Maxim