Re: Proposal: drop libcrypt-dev dependency from libc6-dev

2025-04-13 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hello fellow developers, On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 07:37:32AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > how about libc6-dev stops depending on libcrypt-dev? with minor disagreement in details, I have received much positive feedback and therefore moved forward. > So far so good. That's 1 + 95 + 1

Re: Proposal: drop libcrypt-dev dependency from libc6-dev

2025-04-10 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi, On 2025-04-10 07:37, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Hello fellow developers, [ Snip ] > Question 1: Do you see important aspects missed in this analysis? No > Question 2: Do you agree that this change is worth the effort? I don't know. I do not see a huge benefit from the glibc point of view, bu

Re: Proposal: drop libcrypt-dev dependency from libc6-dev

2025-04-10 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Marco, On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 11:01:24AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 10, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > how about libc6-dev stops depending on libcrypt-dev? > Sure. Thanks for the feedback. > > material of course. Also libc6-dev would still "Recommends: >

Re: Proposal: drop libcrypt-dev dependency from libc6-dev

2025-04-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 07:37:32 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: I sorted those logs and you may now find them at https://people.debian.org/~helmutg/glibc-no-crypt/logs/. Thanks. Beyond that, 11 packages build a perl extension module for testing purposes and therefore need "Build-Depends: perl-xs-de

Re: Proposal: drop libcrypt-dev dependency from libc6-dev

2025-04-10 Thread Santiago Vila
hand: - A recommends will only have some effect for people not having libcrypt-dev installed yet, so people upgrading from trixie to forky who have both libc6-dev and libcrypt-dev installed will not see the libcrypt-dev package mysteriously removed from their systems. - In general, Debian users are al

Re: Proposal: drop libcrypt-dev dependency from libc6-dev

2025-04-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 10, Helmut Grohne wrote: how about libc6-dev stops depending on libcrypt-dev? Sure. material of course. Also libc6-dev would still "Recommends: libcrypt-dev", but libcrypt-dev would no longer be build-essential. What purpose would this Recommends solve? Assuming "n

Re: Proposal: drop libcrypt-dev dependency from libc6-dev

2025-04-10 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 at 07:37:32 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: how about libc6-dev stops depending on libcrypt-dev? I think this is a good idea for early in the forky cycle. I also investigated all apt-cache rdepends libcrypt1. That results in 151 source packages. ... * steam-installer This

Proposal: drop libcrypt-dev dependency from libc6-dev

2025-04-09 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hello fellow developers, how about libc6-dev stops depending on libcrypt-dev? I mean for real. We cannot do it right away. The proposal is forky material of course. Also libc6-dev would still "Recommends: libcrypt-dev", but libcrypt-dev would no longer be build-essential. The ob

Re: libc6-dev have unmet dependencies in stable-bullseye

2022-11-01 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 04:42:00PM +0100, Markus wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you for your answer. > > > If you used debootstrap or mmdebstrap to create your own chroot or > > container that only includes bullseye, and not bullseye-security or > > bullseye-updates, then

Re: libc6-dev have unmet dependencies in stable-bullseye

2022-10-31 Thread Markus
Hi, Thank you for your answer. > If you used debootstrap or mmdebstrap to create your own chroot or > container that only includes bullseye, and not bullseye-security or > bullseye-updates, then you would get libc6 (= 2.31-13+deb11u4) in > the chroot/container, and libc6-dev (= 2.3

Re: libc6-dev have unmet dependencies in stable-bullseye

2022-10-31 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 31 Oct 2022 at 11:21:57 +0100, Markus Ritzmann wrote: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > libc6-dev : Depends: libc6 (= 2.31-13+deb11u4) but 2.31-13+deb11u5 is to be > > installed > > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages

libc6-dev have unmet dependencies in stable-bullseye

2022-10-31 Thread Markus Ritzmann
Hi Currently libc6-dev cannot be installed on bullseye because of unmet dependencies. Error message: > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > libc6-dev : Depends: libc6 (= 2.31-13+deb11u4) but 2.31-13+deb11u5 is to be > installed > E: Unable to correct problems, y

Re: problem with libc6 / iconv

2016-10-10 Thread Jérémy Lal
ing setlocale("C.UTF-8") trick. > > > > > > However, several libc6 version ago, that behavior changed, to the point > > > node-iconv fails its tests now. > > > > > > I've failed to work around that, and i'm lacking libc6 knowledge to > fix it,

Re: problem with libc6 / iconv

2016-10-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2016-10-09 10:21:03 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 01:49:14AM +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: > > node-iconv used to be able to translit utf-8 chars (ça va) to ascii (ca va) > > using setlocale("C.UTF-8") trick. > > > > However, several lib

Re: problem with libc6 / iconv

2016-10-09 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 01:49:14AM +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: > node-iconv used to be able to translit utf-8 chars (ça va) to ascii (ca va) > using setlocale("C.UTF-8") trick. > > However, several libc6 version ago, that behavior changed, to the point > node-iconv fails

problem with libc6 / iconv

2016-10-08 Thread Jérémy Lal
Hi, node-iconv used to be able to translit utf-8 chars (ça va) to ascii (ca va) using setlocale("C.UTF-8") trick. However, several libc6 version ago, that behavior changed, to the point node-iconv fails its tests now. I've failed to work around that, and i'm lacking libc6

Build failures with libc6 2.23 from experimental

2016-03-20 Thread Martin Michlmayr
I compiled unstable with libc6 2.23 (2.23-0experimental0) from experimental. I filed the following build failures: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=2.23;users=debian-gl...@lists.debian.org -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: multiarch coinstallability of libc6 / conflicting loader paths

2014-12-07 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 01:08:24AM +0100, Timo Weingärtner wrote: > A short-term fix for the dpkg errors could be to express the conflicting > loader paths with Conflicts: between the relevant libc6 packages. Have multiarch conflicts/breaks been specified already? Sure, this would not

Re: multiarch coinstallability of libc6 / conflicting loader paths

2014-12-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Timo Weingärtner wrote: > So I enabled architectures in dpkg, updated the package lists and tried > installing libc6 packages for each architecture, but dpkg refused to unpack > libc6:mipsel after libc6:powerpc had been installed, because both > archi

multiarch coinstallability of libc6 / conflicting loader paths

2014-12-06 Thread Timo Weingärtner
Hi, last week I tried exploiting multiarch to set up a machine to build and run binaries for multiple architectures. So I enabled architectures in dpkg, updated the package lists and tried installing libc6 packages for each architecture, but dpkg refused to unpack libc6:mipsel after libc6

Re: hypothesis about the trouble I had with libc6 and multilib: extraneous libc6-amd64

2013-01-28 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:11:50AM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > > $ dpkg -l | grep libc6 > ii libc6:amd64 2.13-37 amd64 > ii libc6:i3862.13-37 i386 > ii libc6-amd64 2.13-37 i386 > ii libc6-i3862.13-37 amd64 So you basicly have libc6 installed 4 times, twice

hypothesis about the trouble I had with libc6 and multilib: extraneous libc6-amd64

2013-01-18 Thread Paul Johnson
After that, some Debian packages could be rebuilt, but the installer refused, complaining about dependency on libc6-amd64. While banging on that system to try to work it out, I did something that completely broke the system. I mean, I completely broke it, nothing would run, not "ls" no

Bug#637232: [patch] provide a libc6-dev-compat package

2012-11-14 Thread Aurelien Jarno
/debian/control2012-10-28 00:23:38.0 +0200 > +++ eglibc-2.16/debian/control2012-11-02 10:40:56.0 +0100 > @@ -175,6 +175,17 @@ > Contains the symlinks, headers, and object files needed to compile > and link programs which use the standard C library. >

Bug#637232: [patch] provide a libc6-dev-compat package

2012-11-02 Thread Matthias Klose
+0200 +++ eglibc-2.16/debian/control 2012-11-02 10:40:56.0 +0100 @@ -175,6 +175,17 @@ Contains the symlinks, headers, and object files needed to compile and link programs which use the standard C library. +Package: libc6-dev-compat +Architecture: amd64 arm arm64 armel armhf hppa i386

Re: Bug#587918: libnss-myhostname: Please do not depend on both libc6 and libc6-amd64

2010-07-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Julien Cristau [100703 12:07]: > On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:55:40 +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > Which still keeps open the problem of updating build-depends once a new > > subarchitecture shows up. The only solution I currently see is having some > > libc-allarchitectures-dev package pullin

Re: Bug#587918: libnss-myhostname: Please do not depend on both libc6 and libc6-amd64

2010-07-03 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi Bernhard, Am Samstag, den 03.07.2010, 11:55 +0200 schrieb Bernhard R. Link: > BTW: speaking about the different subarchitectures. Perhaps it would make > sense to move the debian/rules code I've written for libnss-extrausers > to some common file (perhaps in dpkg-dev or somewhere else), > so it

Re: Bug#587918: libnss-myhostname: Please do not depend on both libc6 and libc6-amd64

2010-07-03 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:55:40 +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > Which still keeps open the problem of updating build-depends once a new > subarchitecture shows up. The only solution I currently see is having some > libc-allarchitectures-dev package pulling in all the needed stuff, which > looks

Re: Bug#587918: libnss-myhostname: Please do not depend on both libc6 and libc6-amd64

2010-07-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
to run 32bit variants > and needs to install another package. The cost of this is the additional > dependency on the “other” libc6-* package, as noted by Petter in this > bug. Take a look at http://packages.debian.org/sid/libnss-extrausers: It only depends on libc6 (or libc0.1 or libc0.3 on k

Re: Bug#587918: libnss-myhostname: Please do not depend on both libc6 and libc6-amd64

2010-07-03 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi Petter, Am Freitag, den 02.07.2010, 19:28 +0200 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > Package: libnss-myhostname > Version: 0.2.4 > > I ran into this problem using the DVD build of Debian Edu. The > package was uninstallable on i386 because it failed to find > libc6-amd64 on th

Processed: Re: Bug#504516: libc6 package allows for a potential root compromise to users in 'staff' group

2008-11-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 504516 general Bug#504516: libc6 package allows for a potential root compromise to users in 'staff' group Bug reassigned from package `libc6' to `general'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if yo

Bug#482921: Bug#482902: please provide libc6-hppa64 and libc6-hppa64-dev packages

2008-05-25 Thread Andreas Barth
severity 482921 important thanks Hi, * Matthias Klose ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080526 00:06]: > Aurelien Jarno writes: > > Matthias Klose a écrit : > > > Package: glibc > > > Version: 2.7-11 > > > Severity: important > > > > > > Please build l

Processed: Re: Bug#482902: please provide libc6-hppa64 and libc6-hppa64-dev packages

2008-05-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > severity 482921 important Bug#482921: please provide libc6-hppa64 and libc6-hppa64-dev packages Severity set to `important' from `serious' > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug

Processed: Re: Bug#482902: please provide libc6-hppa64 and libc6-hppa64-dev packages

2008-05-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > clone 482902 -1 Bug#482902: please provide libc6-hppa64 and libc6-hppa64-dev packages Bug 482902 cloned as bug 482921. > reassign -1 general Bug#482921: please provide libc6-hppa64 and libc6-hppa64-dev packages Bug reassigned from package `gli

Re: libc6 with support for old kernels

2007-08-07 Thread Aurelien Jarno
has only 1.1.4. > backports.org has subversion 1.4.1 for sarge, but no libsvn0-dev. ] > > Is there an compiled libc6 that has support for older kernels, too, or > some easy way to recompile it? Support for 2.4 kernels has been removed from upstream glibc. -- .''`. A

Re: libc6 with support for old kernels

2007-08-07 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 09:56:34AM +0200, Ph. Marek wrote: > Hello everybody, > > > I'd like to ask for some help. > > I have some machines running an old kernel (2.4.25, from Suse7.3). > Now I'd like to get some newer software running on them, *without* > re-installing the whole system. We d

Re: libc6 with support for old kernels

2007-08-07 Thread Ph. Marek
the -devel list was appropriate (hoping that the libc6 maintainer "just" sends a new package :-) Thank you. Regards, Phil -- Versioning your /etc, /home or even your whole installation? Try fsvs (fsvs.tigris.org)! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc6 with support for old kernels

2007-08-07 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 09:56:34AM +0200, Ph. Marek wrote: > I'd like to ask for some help. Please ask on debian-user, debian-devel is a development list. regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

libc6 with support for old kernels

2007-08-07 Thread Ph. Marek
). [ I tried to use the sarge-packages; while the packages work on 2.4.25, they are really old versions, and unuseable. Eg. fsvs needs at least subversion 1.2, while sarge has only 1.1.4. backports.org has subversion 1.4.1 for sarge, but no libsvn0-dev. ] Is there an compiled libc6 that has suppo

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 26, Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe hurd and m68k porters can maintain a glibc package using an old > version (2.3.6 ??) together? Well that's for after Etch. What for? Modern threaded software will require TLS more and more. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: D

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-26 Thread Barry deFreese
- Original Message - From: "Michael Banck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:45 AM Subject: Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 01:27:07PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: We plan to upload [glibc-2.5] right after the releas

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-26 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Thomas Schwinge a écrit : > Hello! > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 05:45:24PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 01:27:07PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >>> For m68k and hurd, I have sent a mail to the porters a few months ago, I >>> haven't received any answer. > > That is untrue

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-26 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 05:45:24PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 01:27:07PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > For m68k and hurd, I have sent a mail to the porters a few months ago, I > > haven't received any answer. That is untrue. I replied for the Hurd people. >

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-26 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 01:27:07PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > We plan to upload [glibc-2.5] right after the release of etch. > > This version works on all architectures, but m68k, hurd and hppa which > don't have TLS support. > > For hppa the work is almost done, I am currently building the p

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:42:08PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > When Sarge was released, amd64 was not officially released but had an > unofficial release. why not do the same with the hopes tha etch+1 will > see m68k in relase shape? That's exactly what we're planning to do. -- Home is where you

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/25/06 21:42, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:21:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 10/25/06 06:27, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >>> Ron Johnson a écrit : On 10/25/06 04:53, Mar

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-25 Thread Warren Turkal
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 20:42, Kevin Mark wrote: > When Sarge was released, amd64 was not officially released but had an > unofficial release. why not do the same with the hopes tha etch+1 will > see m68k in relase shape? AMD64 is a modern architecture. M68k is an architecture that saw its pr

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:21:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/25/06 06:27, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > Ron Johnson a écrit : > >> > >> On 10/25/06 04:53, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > >>> * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-25 04:36]: > [

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-25 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/25/2006 11:21 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/25/06 06:27, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >>>Ron Johnson a écrit : >>> On 10/25/06 04:53, Martin Michlmayr wrote: >* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-25 04:36]: > > [snip] > >>>For m

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/25/06 06:27, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Ron Johnson a écrit : >> >> On 10/25/06 04:53, Martin Michlmayr wrote: >>> * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-25 04:36]: [snip] > For m68k and hurd, I have sent a mail to the porters a few months ago,

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-25 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Ron Johnson a écrit : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/25/06 04:53, Martin Michlmayr wrote: >> * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-25 04:36]: >>> Is there any reasonable possibility that it will make it into Etch? >> No, of course not. We cannot put a copletely n

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/25/06 04:53, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-25 04:36]: >> Is there any reasonable possibility that it will make it into Etch? > > No, of course not. We cannot put a copletely new and untested libc in > at t

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061025 11:37]: > Is there any reasonable possibility that it will make it into Etch? No. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-25 11:48]: > > Is there any reasonable possibility that it will make it into Etch? > libc6 is frozen (at 2.3.x -- I assume you mean 2.4, not 2.5?), so no. 2.5 came out a few days ago. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyriu

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-25 04:36]: > Is there any reasonable possibility that it will make it into Etch? No, of course not. We cannot put a copletely new and untested libc in at this point of the release cycle. In fact, we don't even have 2.4 because there are a number of arch

Re: libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-25 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 04:36:42AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Is there any reasonable possibility that it will make it into Etch? libc6 is frozen (at 2.3.x -- I assume you mean 2.4, not 2.5?), so no. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

libc6 2.5 and Etch

2006-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Is there any reasonable possibility that it will make it into Etch? Thanks - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and

Re: conflict/pre-depends loop involving e2fsprogs/sysvinit/libc6

2005-09-01 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Adam, On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 03:37:08PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > e2fsprogs 1.27-2 > libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 > locales 2.3.2.ds1-21 > sysvinit 2.84-2woody1 This shows that you have a mixed woody/sarge system, and are trying to upgrade to sid. > Se

conflict/pre-depends loop involving e2fsprogs/sysvinit/libc6

2005-09-01 Thread Adam Heath
First, I don't know where I should file this bug. Looking for suggestions on the list. Second, any ideas on how to fix this problem? So, I have a system that was created(by debootstrap) between Feb 14 and May 10(dates taken from the libc6 changelog, based on the version installed). Howev

Re: libc6 bug? or C programming error?

2003-12-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Oliver Elphick writes: > On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 00:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > /* map the file and load an extra page in case the new line expands the > > > file across the page boundary; adding 2 allows for the truncating > > > effect of integer division. Forcing an extra pa

Re: libc6 bug? or C programming error?

2003-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 01:05, Steve Greenland wrote: > > sprintf(buf, "Failed to open %s for writing", filename); > > > Where did you make 'buf' point to any usuable memory? Everything after > this is bogus... You are right that that w

Re: libc6 bug? or C programming error?

2003-12-02 Thread Steve Greenland
On 02-Dec-03, 18:37 (CST), Oliver Elphick wrote: > / > Write a line in user_clusters > / > void write_cluster_line(const char *user, const char *group, >

Re: libc6 bug? or C programming error?

2003-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 00:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > /* map the file and load an extra page in case the new line expands the > > file across the page boundary; adding 2 allows for the truncating > > effect of integer division. Forcing an extra page ensures > > that we can ide

Re: libc6 bug? or C programming error?

2003-12-02 Thread viro
> /* map the file and load an extra page in case the new line expands the > file across the page boundary; adding 2 allows for the truncating > effect of integer division. Forcing an extra page ensures > that we can identify the end of the buffer by finding a NUL */ No, it does n

libc6 bug? or C programming error?

2003-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
sed elsewhere in the program and does not segfault. = Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.2.ds1-10 Severity: normal I am building a program that at one point uses strchr(). It segfaults in sysdeps/i386/strchr.S. I attach a gdb trace. I am not familiar

Re: Problem with libc6 and 'chgrp / chown' remains ...

2003-11-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:11:50PM -0600, Jesse Yurkovich wrote: > Seems that we have: > ii libc6 2.3.2-9GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone > ii libc6-dev 2.3.2-9GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea > > I'm guessing this was

Re: Problem with libc6 and 'chgrp / chown' remains ...

2003-11-11 Thread Jesse Yurkovich
Seems that we have: ii libc6 2.3.2-9GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libc6-dev 2.3.2-9GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea I'm guessing this was released in err then? A new apt-get update doesn't indicate any other upgrades. Thi

Re: libc6-i686 only for 2.6 kernels? was: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:54:18PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:29:06PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > It could. I decided that building four was excessive and having > > the act of installing libc6-i686 act to disable NPTL would be a little >

Re: libc6-i686 only for 2.6 kernels? was: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:29:06PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > It could. I decided that building four was excessive and having > the act of installing libc6-i686 act to disable NPTL would be a little > bit too strange. Can you clue me in as to why the non-optimized libc6 package

Re: libc6-i686 only for 2.6 kernels? was: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
t; And Nikita just pointed out there's libc6-i686. It might make sense to > > > > add > > > > linux-i686 too. I'm open for discussing that, but this discussion > > > > doesn't > > > > belong on the ITP bug. > > > > > >

Re: libc6-i686 only for 2.6 kernels? was: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:19:39PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:17:13PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 06:43:09PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > And Nikita just pointed out there's libc6-i686. It might make sense to a

Re: Problem with libc6 and 'chgrp / chown' remains ...

2003-11-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:09:42PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:49:42PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:18:46PM -0600, Jesse Yurkovich wrote: > > > > > With the recent libc6 bugs closed, I tried upgrading b

Re: libc6-i686 only for 2.6 kernels? was: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
> > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:17:13PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 06:43:09PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > >> > And Nikita just pointed out there's libc6-i686. It might make sense > > > >> > to

Re: Problem with libc6 and 'chgrp / chown' remains ...

2003-11-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:49:42PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:18:46PM -0600, Jesse Yurkovich wrote: > > > With the recent libc6 bugs closed, I tried upgrading both a testing and > > an unstable machine to the latest deb. > > You failed

Re: libc6-i686 only for 2.6 kernels? was: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-11 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:28, Isaac To wrote: > Unless one patch the kernel to support all the things like . files in > /proc, futex, O(1) scheduler, ...  (i.e., as in the "2.4" kernel of > Redhat). I have been seriously considering a kernel-patch-2.4-redhat package which contains a patch with every

Re: libc6-i686 only for 2.6 kernels? was: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
; On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 06:43:09PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > >> > And Nikita just pointed out there's libc6-i686. It might make sense to > > >> > add > > >> > linux-i686 too. I'm open for discussing that, but this discussion > &g

Re: Problem with libc6 and 'chgrp / chown' remains ...

2003-11-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:18:46PM -0600, Jesse Yurkovich wrote: > With the recent libc6 bugs closed, I tried upgrading both a testing and > an unstable machine to the latest deb. You failed to specify which version exhibited the problem, and which version you upgraded to. If you are

Problem with libc6 and 'chgrp / chown' remains ...

2003-11-10 Thread Jesse Yurkovich
Hi, With the recent libc6 bugs closed, I tried upgrading both a testing and an unstable machine to the latest deb. However, the problems with utilities like chown still remain on both machines. Can someone please add a line in their /etc/group file under the group 'users' and make

Re: libc6-i686 only for 2.6 kernels? was: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-10 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > And > >> Nikita just pointed out there's libc6-i686. It might make sense to > >> add > linux-i686 too. I'm open for discussing that, but this > >> discussion doesn't > belong on the ITP bug. > >>

Re: libc6-i686 only for 2.6 kernels? was: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-10 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
t;> > And Nikita just pointed out there's libc6-i686. It might make sense to > >> > add > >> > linux-i686 too. I'm open for discussing that, but this discussion doesn't > >> > belong on the ITP bug. > >> > >> And why is i

Re: libc6-i686 only for 2.6 kernels? was: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-10 Thread Dagfinn Ilmari MannsÃker
Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:17:13PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 06:43:09PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: >> > And Nikita just pointed out there's libc6-i686. It might make sense to add >

Re: libc6-i686 only for 2.6 kernels? was: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-10 Thread Isaac To
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:17:13PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 06:43:09PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > And >> Nikita just pointed out ther

Re: libc6-i686 only for 2.6 kernels? was: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-10 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:17:13PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 06:43:09PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > And Nikita just pointed out there's libc6-i686. It might make sense to add > > linux-i686 too. I'm open for discussing that, but this discuss

libc6-i686 only for 2.6 kernels? was: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-10 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 06:43:09PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > And Nikita just pointed out there's libc6-i686. It might make sense to add > linux-i686 too. I'm open for discussing that, but this discussion doesn't > belong on the ITP bug. And why is it only for 2.6

Re: kernel package names (was Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers)

2003-11-07 Thread Joel Baker
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:14:31PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 05-Nov-03, 19:14 (CST), Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm in two minds whether or not to ask this, but I've been wondering > > about the naming scheme for linux packages - kernel-*. Why not > > linux-kernel-* o

Re: kernel package names (was Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers)

2003-11-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:43:52PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 20:14, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > I'm in two minds whether or not to ask this, but I've been wondering > > about the naming scheme for linux packages - kernel-*. Why not > > linux-kernel-* or linux-* ? If alterna

Re: kernel package names (was Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers)

2003-11-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:14:31PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 05-Nov-03, 19:14 (CST), Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm in two minds whether or not to ask this, but I've been wondering > > about the naming scheme for linux packages - kernel-*. Why not > > linux-kernel-* o

Re: kernel package names (was Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers)

2003-11-06 Thread Ryan Underwood
Hi, On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:14:31PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 05-Nov-03, 19:14 (CST), Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm in two minds whether or not to ask this, but I've been wondering > > about the naming scheme for linux packages - kernel-*. Why not > > linux-kern

Re: kernel package names (was Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers)

2003-11-06 Thread Steve Greenland
On 06-Nov-03, 13:47 (CST), Keegan Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:14:31PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > > Surely these won't all show up in the same Packages file...if you're > > running GNU/KFreeBSD, it will be a FreeBSD kernel, right? Why would the > > Linux and H

Re: kernel package names (was Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers)

2003-11-06 Thread Keegan Quinn
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:14:31PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 05-Nov-03, 19:14 (CST), Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm in two minds whether or not to ask this, but I've been wondering > > about the naming scheme for linux packages - kernel-*. Why not > > linux-kernel-* o

Re: kernel package names (was Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers)

2003-11-06 Thread Steve Greenland
On 05-Nov-03, 19:14 (CST), Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm in two minds whether or not to ask this, but I've been wondering > about the naming scheme for linux packages - kernel-*. Why not > linux-kernel-* or linux-* ? If alternative kernels in debian become > more popular, is th

Re: kernel package names (was Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers)

2003-11-06 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > When I search for packages, I think I'd prefer (assuming I want > to see all kernel- type packages), I'd prefer kernel-linux-*, > kernel-hurd-*, kernel-freebsd-*, etc. Instead of trying to cram that into package names, would it not be more appropriat

Re: kernel package names (was Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers)

2003-11-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.11.06.0243 +0100]: > > about the naming scheme for linux packages - kernel-*. Why not > > linux-kernel-* or linux-* ? If alternative kernels in debian become > > more popular, is there a potential for confusion in the future? > [...] > Martin Kraaf

Re: kernel package names (was Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers)

2003-11-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:14, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I'm in two minds whether or not to ask this, but I've been wondering > about the naming scheme for linux packages - kernel-*. Why not > linux-kernel-* or linux-* ? If alternative kernels in debian become > more popular, is there a potential for

Re: kernel package names (was Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers)

2003-11-05 Thread Greg Folkert
; alleviate that initial perception, IMO. Why not libc6-linux-headers? > > I'm in two minds whether or not to ask this, but I've been wondering > about the naming scheme for linux packages - kernel-*. Why not > linux-kernel-* or linux-* ? If alternative kernels in debian b

Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers

2003-11-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:21:11AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:37:24PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > > Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > In what situation would the linux-kernel-headers package be needed > > > seperate from libc? > > > > Ths iss

kernel package names (was Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers)

2003-11-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:13:28AM -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote: > Before that realization, it seemed like the type of random cruft that > sometimes gets pulled in on dist-upgrade; a name change would help > alleviate that initial perception, IMO. Why not libc6-linux-headers? I'

Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers

2003-11-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 05:23:30PM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:20:49PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > It does not need to. Feel free to propose a patch to document this > > more clearly (I don't really want to rename it again...) > > Add something like this to t

Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers

2003-11-05 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:20:49PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > It does not need to. Feel free to propose a patch to document this > more clearly (I don't really want to rename it again...) Add something like this to the description: These headers are not used to compile kernel modules,

Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers

2003-11-05 Thread Ryan Underwood
lization, it seemed like the type of random cruft that sometimes gets pulled in on dist-upgrade; a name change would help alleviate that initial perception, IMO. Why not libc6-linux-headers? -- Ryan Underwood, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers

2003-11-05 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:37:24PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In what situation would the linux-kernel-headers package be needed > > seperate from libc? > > Ths issue is not whether it is needed separately from libc-dev, the > issue is that it c

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