ARM64 Linux Drop GLIBC 2.29+ requirement

Description

The new beta version of brave browser (https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/15349 by @mherrmann) requires much higher library versions than the amd64 versions

amd64:

Depends: ca-certificates, fonts-liberation, libasound2 (>= 1.0.17), libatk-bridge2.0-0 (>= 2.5.3), libatk1.0-0 (>= 2.2.0), libatspi2.0-0 (>= 2.9.90), libc6 (>= 2.17), libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0), libcups2 (>= 1.6.0), libcurl3-gnutls | libcurl3-nss | libcurl4 | libcurl3, libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.5.12), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.60), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libgbm1 (>= 8.1~0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.39.4), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.9.10) | libgtk-4-1, libnspr4 (>= 2:4.9-2~), libnss3 (>= 2:3.26), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libwayland-client0 (>= 1.0.2), libx11-6 (>= 2:1.4.99.1), libxcb1 (>= 1.9.2), libxcomposite1 (>= 1:0.4.4-1), libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1), libxext6, libxfixes3, libxkbcommon0 (>= 0.4.1), libxrandr2, wget, xdg-utils (>= 1.0.2)
Recommends: libu2f-udev, libvulkan1

in particular libc6 (>= 2.17)

arm64:

Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.14.0)
Depends: ca-certificates, fonts-liberation, libasound2 (>= 1.0.17), libatk-bridge2.0-0 (>= 2.5.3), libatk1.0-0 (>= 2.2.0), libatspi2.0-0 (>= 2.9.90), libc6 (>= 2.29), libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0), libcups2 (>= 1.6.0), libcurl3-gnutls | libcurl3-nss | libcurl4 | libcurl3, libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.60), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libgbm1 (>= 8.1~0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.39.4), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.9.10) | libgtk-4-1, libnspr4 (>= 2:4.9-2~), libnss3 (>= 2:3.26), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libwayland-client0 (>= 1.0.2), libx11-6 (>= 2:1.4.99.1), libxcb1 (>= 1.9.2), libxcomposite1 (>= 1:0.4.4-1), libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1), libxext6, libxfixes3, libxkbcommon0 (>= 0.4.1), libxrandr2, wget, xdg-utils (>= 1.0.2)
Recommends: libu2f-udev, libvulkan1

in particular libc6 (>= 2.29)

I have not researched in detail your build process but I assume you are probably using the chromium sysroots to build this on and utilizing their re-version glibc scripts to drop the minimum requirements on x86_64. You may need to make a minor edit to the re-version script as it was previously (and might still be) disabled on ARM64 linux due to an issue that google was having with re-versioning for ARM64 chromeOS.

I suggest starting with reading my issue at electron for a more detailed dive: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/34399

the problematic chromium commit that I referenced: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/f6901be733e76832721ad7fb8d4d51715df77095

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1309965#c5

[theofficialgman]

update on this. looks like chromium has bumped the glibc reversion script to max 2.26 glibc https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/3938615

so no more more debian 9 for all platforms going forward @mherrmann @martinbutt

[mherrmann]

Thank you for letting us know and the links @theofficialgman!