Hello, a few days ago we had a discussion on IRC about numerous problems created by a change in dpkg-dev: - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=465282 - http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commit;h=a143d3b44001f328453e0b71d272e06eb60903fa
doko pointed out that several packages had to be updated to cope with the change and most notably the libc which had a run-time failure due to the default value set to LDFLAGS. A rebuild by Lucas also showed around 80-100 packages which FTBFS with this version of dpkg-dev. Last I heard Frank (djpig) and Andreas (aba) were discussung together the issue but I haven't seen any decision yet. Given that I want to prepare dpkg for the next upload, I'd like that we take a decision on this issue. I'd like to suggest an intermediary solution: we don't revert the feature but we remove the default value for LDFLAGS. I think that most run-time and build-time failures have been caused by the change on this variable. Does that seem acceptable? For lenny+1, we can reintroduce the original default value. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
