[Bug 1962225] Re: preinst check that kernel revision < 255 now does more harm than good

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This bug was fixed in the package glibc - 2.31-0ubuntu9.9

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glibc (2.31-0ubuntu9.9) focal; urgency=medium

  * Disable testsuite on riscv64. It is failing maths tests intermittently in
    ways that cannot be a glibc regression and is disabled in later series
    anyway.

glibc (2.31-0ubuntu9.8) focal; urgency=medium

  * Update for 20.04. (LP: #1951033)

  [ Balint Reczey ]
  * Cherry-pick upstream patch to fix building with -moutline-atomics
  * Prevent rare deadlock in pthread_cond_signal (LP: #1899800)

  [ Matthias Klose ]
  * Revert: Use DH_COMPAT=8 for dh_strip to fix debug sections for valgrind.
    Enables debugging ld.so related issues. (LP: #1918035)
  * Don't strip ld.so on armhf. (LP: #1927192)

  [ Gunnar Hjalmarsson ]
  * d/local/usr_sbin/update-locale: improve sanity checks. (LP: #1892825)

  [ Heitor Alves de Siqueira ]
  * d/p/u/git-lp1928508-reversing-calculation-of-__x86_shared_non_temporal.patch:
    - Fix memcpy() performance regression on x86 AMD systems (LP: #1928508)

  [ Aurelien Jarno ]
  * debian/debhelper.in/libc.preinst: drop the check for kernel release
    > 255 now that glibc and preinstall script are fixed. (LP: #1962225)

  [ Michael Hudson-Doyle ]
  * libc6 on arm64 is now built with -moutline-atomics so libc6-lse can now be
    an empty package that is safe to remove. (LP: #1912652)
  * d/patches/u/aarch64-memcpy-improvements.patch: Backport memcpy
    improvements. (LP: #1951032)
  * Add test-float64x-yn to xfails on riscv64.

 -- Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson at ubuntu.com>  Thu, 07 Apr 2022
13:24:41 +1200

** Changed in: glibc (Ubuntu Focal)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  preinst check that kernel revision < 255 now does more harm than good

Status in glibc package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in glibc source package in Bionic:
  Confirmed
Status in glibc source package in Focal:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [impact]
  Amazon Linux 2 currently has a kernel with version 4.14.262-200.489.amzn2.x86_64. This causes complaints from libc6's preinst that asserts that the "revision" part of the kernel version is less than 255.

  The significance of the check is much less than it used to be when the
  major part of the kernel version was stuck at 2, so we should follow
  Debian and just drop it.

  [test case]
  Boot an Amazon Linux 2 instance. Install docker. Run an ubuntu container of the series being tested. Run "apt-get update && apt-get install --reinstall libc6" and look for error messages / failures.

  [regression potential]
  It's possible that some binaries run using the "uname26" personality will fail -- but they will already fail with the glibc as currently installed, there's no value in preventing an upgrade.

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