Hi - Sorry that I am not up on all of the details, but I have run into a bug that had already -- and incorrectly -- been marked closed. Many more people will be running into the same issue soon because of CVE-2015-7547-inspired updates over the next few days.
Bug #808205 seems to be a version dependency between glibc and binutils that, from a user's perspective, breaks all compiles if binutils is not new enough. It seems that the bug was closed because the proper version of binutils became available. The good news is that I can confirm that upgrading binutils "fixes" the issue. However, apt is capable of resolving this issue before it presents to the user. Off the top of my head, I think the "Breaks:" line needs an entry like "binutils (<< 2.25.90.20151219-1)" (but I am no apt guru). The issue has definitely not been fixed if everyone updating glibc has to google the bug report to know to upgrade binutils. For what it's worth, my system is woody migrated to unstable on an as-needed basis. This is the power of apt's dependency system. Learn it. Use it. Love it. Are we not apt users? We are Debian! Thanks, - Greg
