On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:06 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 02/13/2018 11:03 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >>> >>> I can upload a version of Yaboot today with this patch reverted provided >>> that Yaboot still builds fine on unstable without the hack you used. >> >> >> I call it a hack, but really this is the best long term solution there >> is. Yaboot is filled with empty stub, that one had to add over and >> over. Using a fixed version of e2fslib made the symptoms go away. >> Please check with milan@d.o for the gory details, hopefully I am not >> too far from the reality. I would not spent any time on yaboot anyway. > > > If I need to hack e2fslib to get Yaboot to build, then I can not easily > update the Yaboot package. e2fslib is a package in the archives, I can't > just hijack the package and add some hacks to get a bootloader for a non- > release architecture fixed.
The fixed version: https://packages.debian.org/sid/e2fslibs1.41-dev is in archive, and currently build just fine. You can consider as if yaboot had its own convenient copy of e2fslibs. Does that answer your question ? Or did I miss the point ? -M
