On Thu, 11 May 2017 11:00:30 +0100 Ian Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > The only place this seems to be used is to prepend it to > the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in force during execution of the hotplug scripts. > > This is inherited from upstream, where it is needed (I think) so that > in non-packaged builds of Xen, on non-Debian systems, the Xen > libraries in /usr/local are found when trying to execute the Xen tools > inside the hotplug scripts. > > Our dynamic linker is clever enough to ignore irrelevant files, so I > think this is largely harmless. Of course the noise in /etc ought to > be got rid of.
[...reordered...] > I think such a change is buster material. For now, I suggest that I > continue to build security updates for jessie on i386 as I am able to > conveniently test that. > [...] > Obviously, feel free to try to convince me > that this is RC for stretch. I wouldn't want to let this slide if > it's going to cause real trouble. You are probably right: if it would have broken something, you'd have gotten more reports by now. So your conclusion sounds fine to me. > I think this should be fixed by not dropping this setting (and > probably the consequent LD_LIBRARY_PATH too). Ideally via some kind > of upstream knob but if not by a Debian patch. > If I need to do another update to stretch (eg, a security update) > before its release, I will simply drop this line from this file. > > Does that plan seem good ? Yes. Thanks for looking into this! cheers, Stefan
