Bug#732076: e2fsprogs: please update config.guess and config.sub at build time

2013-12-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 01:48:42AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: Maybe I have an overly long memory, but I remember when the FSF let politics intrude by making changes to config.guess to promote the GNU/Linux name, which had the affect of breaking packages that blindly trusted that you could

Bug#732076: e2fsprogs: please update config.guess and config.sub at build time

2013-12-13 Thread Colin Watson
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.42.8-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch trusty config.guess and config.sub in e2fsprogs 1.42.8 are a bit too old to support some new ports properly, such as ppc64el. Could you please update them at

Bug#732076: e2fsprogs: please update config.guess and config.sub at build time

2013-12-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 04:13:27PM +, Colin Watson wrote: config.guess and config.sub in e2fsprogs 1.42.8 are a bit too old to support some new ports properly, such as ppc64el. Could you please update them at build time so that we don't have to worry about this in future? Patch follows.

Bug#732076: e2fsprogs: please update config.guess and config.sub at build time

2013-12-13 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Maybe I have an overly long memory, but I remember when the FSF let politics intrude by making changes to config.guess to promote the GNU/Linux name, which had the affect of breaking packages that blindly trusted that you could always update config.guess. That plus the fact that I don't trust