On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:30:53PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >At the beginning of the armhf port the hard-float dynamic linker has >been chosen to be '/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/ld-linux.so.3'. However it >has been standardized later as '/lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3' [1]. We have >changed it in Debian, and added a patch to the glibc [2] to temporarily >support both paths, until all the packages have been rebuilt with the >new path. > >However we failed to do it for Wheezy. We also failed to do it for >Jessie. So let's do it for Stretch, so that we can drop the glibc >patches in Buster, and ensure binary compatibility with other >distributions. > >For that we first need to binNMU the packages which have not been >rebuilt since the dynamic linker change in unstable (see the list at >the end of the mail). Then we can have a look at getting all of them >migrated to testing. > >Any comments or objections?
ACK, this makes sense. I spoke with Adam a while back about doing this. I promised I'd scan the archive for any packages still relying on the old linker path, but I've not got to it yet - sorry. :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com You lock the door And throw away the key There's someone in my head but it's not me
