Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I don't really like the idea of bin-NMUing all those packages without >> > understanding the cause. If it turns out to be a real bug somewhere that >> > needs fixing, the whole bin-NMU dance will have to be done all over >> > again. >> >> Me neither, but I am not qualified to find out the cause. Josselin >> (libpng maintainer, again in the Cc) already said he had no idea either, >> except toolchain changes on the affected arches. Maybe Ryan has some >> insight as buildd admin? > > The obvious assumption would be that we've gone through an > unintended ABI change. That's very bad. Oh well. It happened. > Let's put it behind us. Life goes on. > > Not that the cause wouldn't be interesting of course.
More than interesting: If it wasn't an unintended ABI change, as Josselin asserted, then what else was it? Will that "else" occur again? How can it be prevented? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
