Control: reassign -1 binutils Control: retitle -1 binutils: Hijacks libctf library name on (k)FreeBSD
On 7 Dec 2021, at 15:25, Jessica Clarke <jrt...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 7 Dec 2021, at 15:09, Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> wrote: >> >> Package: ctfutils >> Version: 10.3~svn297264-2 >> Severity: serious >> >> Hi, >> >> there is a (potential) library conflict: >> >> ctfutils (src:ctfutils): /usr/lib/libctf.so.0 >> libctf0 (src:binutils): /usr/lib/$DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH/libctf.so.0 >> >> I don't know if the libraries could be used as replacements of each >> other, but if both packages are installed, only one of libraries will >> be used to resolve dependencies of other shared libraries or binaries. > > *sigh* What is the plan for building binutils on real FreeBSD? Because > that has a libctf (albeit, now at .2) in the base system that will > conflict. Is this just a GNU-written replacement we should disable in > binutils on kfreebsd-*? Presumably that’s what they do on FreeBSD… Regardless, this is binutils’s bug, it can’t just hijack libraries, especially those that are OS-provided system libraries like libctf. Jess
