Re: emacs-28 6d3608be88: Seccomp: improve support for newer versions of glibc (Bug#51073)

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  > > This seems to break the build for many people running older glibc
  > > versions.

  > I forgot to bump the minimum libseccomp version. I've done that now
  > (commit c34d06e3d75bfbea2605e3ae292850175ce5c235).

Concretely, what will the effect of this be on people who build with
an older Glibc version installed?

  > That can happen any day, if glibc folks make some change we didn't
  > know about.  We cannot chase glibc development forever, we will never
  > succeed catching up with them, certainly not in the long run.

It's true that problems like this can happen any day.  Not just with
Glibc but with lots of libraries that Emacs uses.  But that has been
the case for many years.  Are things getting worse in some way?

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