From b2aec51686d78fceb473e1bbe9587f503b60133a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20P=2E=20Berrang=C3=A9?= Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 16:20:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs: add news item about gnulib removal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 officially target, both of which might hit regressions. Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé --- docs/news.xml | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index f6c4d6a78d..f69c9c4780 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -118,6 +118,25 @@
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+ + + use of gnulib has been completely eliminated + + + 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. Other + modern Linux distros 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 evaluation. + + +