Subj : you can stop drivin' nails in your coffin
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sun Feb 02 2025 19:40:11

Hey Nicholas!

 > But then you had 6.12.11 on Jan 23 and 6.12.12 on Feb 1 in between?
 > What's the reasoning with all that?

I still don't have one based on 6.12.12 ... yet.  My reasoning for this is it wasn't released until after I had glibc-2.41 as an integral part of the mix here, which it now is.

 > I'm guessing 6.12.x is still receiving security patches or
 > something while 6.13.x is now currently being worked on?

That sounds about right except that there are previous releases still being supported such as;

longterm:   5.4.290       2025-02-01

which is the oldest branch (5.4) still being worked on as the above date suggests.  I had issues with that branch.  glibc-2.41 claims that kv 4.19.0 is the minimum supported release but it can be configured to only support newer releases if desired.  I haven't had a 4.19 kernel running here for quite some time now but I figure I'll keep it as the minimum for glibc as long as there is a minimum.  However new gcc's might not be so inclined.  I note you are claiming gcc-14.2.1 which you might want to check as far as suitable kv's and glibc versions are concerned.  So far no issues with gcc-14.2.0/glibc-2.41 that I've noticed but I am betting that a gcc-14.3.0 release isn't too far off.

Life is good,
Maurice

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