On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 06:17:41PM +0100, Thomas Poindessous wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 09:11:43PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > > Hi Joey and everyone, thanks for the cc. I'm willing to maintain > > discover in maintainance mode, but if Progeny plans to focus on > > discover2, I don't really see the point in keeping discover1 alive > > beyond the sarge release. The fix from Thomas Poindessous isn't really > > a fix at all, if you look at it. It seems the real bug is in > > linux-kernel-headers, from what I can tell, so once that's fixed an > > upload can be made. If anyone at all is interested in maintaining > > discover1, I won't stand in their way. > > Hi ! > > as I explained in the bts, the recent change in glibc and > linux-kernel-headers has changed the way to handle inclusion of kernel > headers. > > userland application ( like discover ) must copy headers they are using, > they must not including kernel headers. Further informations can be > found in glibc mailing list.
This is not a recent change. Ugly though it is, this has been the canonical way to deal with kernel headers for a long, long time. The switch to 2.6 headers that comes with the linux-kernel-headers package simply broke a few more things that weren't following this rule, but it's not the first time this has happened. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
