Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 14:24:47 -0700 Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes: > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 12:21:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > [...] > >> linux-libc-dev maintainers, when upgrading to squeeze, there is > >> currently nothing preventing linux-libc-dev from being upgraded to a > >> version that uses multiarch paths in advance of upgrading any compiler > >> to understand those paths, which results in a broken C compilation > >> environment. In this case, this affected dkms, since dkms runs a > >> compiler from postinst scripts. > > > linux-libc-dev is of course not used to build kernel modules. But > > perhaps openafs also needlessly rebuilds userland code every time the > > kernel is upgraded. > > The OpenAFS build system is rather complicated since it supports a ton of > different kernels, not just Linux. Part of it involves building a small C > program which, in turn, is used to generate part of the build system. > ... > Anyway, I think the DKMS involvement is somewhat accidental and one can > arrive at other problems than just DKMS postinst scripts by doing a > partial upgrade. The OpenAFS package just has a peculiarity that caused > us to stumble across this.
Hi all, There hasn't been a response to this bug in 10 years. It's about Debian Squeeze, gcc-4.7, kernel 2.6.32-5-686; all rather ancient stuff. What should be done with this bug?
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