control: severity -1 serious On 2016-08-11 01:16, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Source: netkit-rsh > Version: 0.17-15 > Severity: important > Tags: patch upstream > > Dear Maintainer, > > glibc 2.24 has removed the deprecated BSD union wait type if favor of > the POSIX.1 interface using W* macros from <sys/wait.h> (such as > WEXITSTATUS) [1]. > > glibc 2.24 is already available in experimental and will plan to upload > it to sid in the next days/weeks. This will cause netkit-rsh to fail to > build from source. You will find attached a patch to fix the issue. It > unconditionally uses the "new" interface, but it should be available on > all recent UNIXes including the BSDs, given POSIX.1 dates back from > 1988. The GNU libc has it since at least 1995, probably even earlier. > > Please also note that this will not break the existing binaries, just > building the package from source.
glibc 2.24 is now in unstable, so I am upgrading the severity of this bug to serious. If you don't have time to fix this bug, I can do a non-maintainer upload with the patch which is in the bug log. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net
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