Re: 'core-updates' spring 2018

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

>> Since it's fairly late in the core-updates cycle, I think it would be
>> better to try restoring the prlimit64 fallback on the "rhel6" branch and
>> then revisit this during the next core-updates.
>
> I’m not too happy with this, because the longer we delay this the more
> packages we have to build.  The longer the rhel6 branch has to be kept
> alive the more urgent it becomes to build rhel6-core-updates and
> duplicate efforts for the variant where glibc 2.25 is used.  I want to
> keep this situation as short-lived as possible.

I agree.  We said we’d freeze on April 2nd, so it’s still time to do it.

Ludo’.