Bug#877900: general: en-us locale defaults to 24-hour "military" time on stock install

2017-10-07 Thread Steve Langasek
escaped my notice, because I prefer 24h time whenever given the option. Nevertheless, if this bug is to be deemed 'wontfix', it must be done solely with respect to what is correct for the *US* locale. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

r5058 - in glibc-package/trunk/debian: . rules.d

2011-12-09 Thread Steve Langasek
Author: vorlon Date: 2011-12-09 19:44:45 + (Fri, 09 Dec 2011) New Revision: 5058 Modified: glibc-package/trunk/debian/changelog glibc-package/trunk/debian/rules.d/debhelper.mk Log: Fix chmod regex in udeb pass to match the one used for others. Modified: glibc-package/trunk/debian/change

r5054 - in glibc-package/trunk/debian: . rules.d

2011-12-06 Thread Steve Langasek
Author: vorlon Date: 2011-12-07 00:15:54 + (Wed, 07 Dec 2011) New Revision: 5054 Modified: glibc-package/trunk/debian/changelog glibc-package/trunk/debian/rules.d/build.mk Log: Name our biarch compat ld.so.conf.d files on arm* consistently with the ones on other archs. Modified: glibc-p

r5053 - in glibc-package/trunk/debian: . debhelper.in patches patches/arm rules.d sysdeps

2011-12-06 Thread Steve Langasek
Author: vorlon Date: 2011-12-07 00:15:45 + (Wed, 07 Dec 2011) New Revision: 5053 Added: glibc-package/trunk/debian/debhelper.in/libc-udeb.install.armhf glibc-package/trunk/debian/patches/arm/unsubmitted-ldconfig-cache-abi.diff glibc-package/trunk/debian/patches/arm/unsubmitted-ldso-ab

Bug#636686: upgrade from squeeze to wheezy fails on i386 (pre-depends loop)

2011-08-26 Thread Steve Langasek
ache, the system is simply broken, at least until ldconfig is ran > manually or if the user tries to reboot the machine to fix the issue. True. That's a bit worse than unbuildability of embedded perl... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Dev

Bug#636686: upgrade from squeeze to wheezy fails on i386 (pre-depends loop)

2011-08-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 02:07:36AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Adam, can you provide a minimal package list that can be used to > reproduce the error? Sorry, I just noticed the test case in your second message. However, it still doesn't work for me on an existing squeeze i386 chr

Bug#636686: upgrade from squeeze to wheezy fails on i386 (pre-depends loop)

2011-08-26 Thread Steve Langasek
ultiarch-support dependency on i386 and armhf. (I haven't tested this solution; Adam proposed it on IRC, and it seems plausible.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu

r4903 - multiarch-support/trunk/debian

2011-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
Author: vorlon Date: 2011-08-20 07:36:12 + (Sat, 20 Aug 2011) New Revision: 4903 Modified: multiarch-support/trunk/debian/control Log: pre-depend on the corresponding libc -dev package that moves the headers to /usr/include/ Modified: multiarch-support/trunk/debian/control

r4902 - multiarch-support/trunk/debian

2011-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~) +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers Uploaders: Steve Langasek , Aurelien Jarno , Matthias Klose Standards-Version: 3.9.2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

r4901 - multiarch-support/trunk/debian

2011-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
Author: vorlon Date: 2011-08-20 07:26:39 + (Sat, 20 Aug 2011) New Revision: 4901 Modified: multiarch-support/trunk/debian/rules Log: put the extra hurd symlinks in the right package Modified: multiarch-support/trunk/debian/rules =

r4900 - multiarch-support/trunk/debian

2011-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
Author: vorlon Date: 2011-08-20 07:23:45 + (Sat, 20 Aug 2011) New Revision: 4900 Modified: multiarch-support/trunk/debian/multiarch-compat.links.in multiarch-support/trunk/debian/rules Log: fix dh_link invocation Modified: multiarch-support/trunk/debian/multiarch-compat.links.in ===

r4899 - multiarch-support/trunk/debian

2011-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
Author: vorlon Date: 2011-08-20 07:23:40 + (Sat, 20 Aug 2011) New Revision: 4899 Modified: multiarch-support/trunk/debian/multiarch-compat.links.in multiarch-support/trunk/debian/rules Log: create the crt links Modified: multiarch-support/trunk/debian/multiarch-compat.links.in =

r4898 - multiarch-support/trunk/debian

2011-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
Author: vorlon Date: 2011-08-20 07:23:36 + (Sat, 20 Aug 2011) New Revision: 4898 Modified: multiarch-support/trunk/debian/rules Log: meh, it's spelled 'dh_link' Modified: multiarch-support/trunk/debian/rules === --- multiarch-

r4897 - multiarch-support/trunk/debian

2011-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
Author: vorlon Date: 2011-08-20 07:23:31 + (Sat, 20 Aug 2011) New Revision: 4897 Added: multiarch-support/trunk/debian/multiarch-compat.links.in Modified: multiarch-support/trunk/debian/rules Log: create the symlinks for the include directories Added: multiarch-support/trunk/debian/mult

r4896 - multiarch-support/trunk/debian

2011-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
Author: vorlon Date: 2011-08-20 07:23:27 + (Sat, 20 Aug 2011) New Revision: 4896 Modified: multiarch-support/trunk/debian/changelog Log: fix changelog version number to be a native version Modified: multiarch-support/trunk/debian/changelog ==

r4895 - in multiarch-support: . trunk trunk/debian trunk/debian/source

2011-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
. +(Closes: #630938). + * Provide a new multiarch-compat package, for compatibility with +compilers/linkers that don't understand multiarch yet. + + -- Steve Langasek Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:43:10 -0700 Added: multiarch-support/trunk/debian/c

r4894 - /

2011-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
Author: vorlon Date: 2011-08-20 07:23:20 + (Sat, 20 Aug 2011) New Revision: 4894 Added: multiarch-support/ Log: Creating prefix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://

r4893 - glibc-package/trunk/debian/debhelper.in

2011-08-19 Thread Steve Langasek
Author: vorlon Date: 2011-08-19 08:40:03 + (Fri, 19 Aug 2011) New Revision: 4893 Modified: glibc-package/trunk/debian/debhelper.in/libc.preinst glibc-package/trunk/debian/debhelper.in/libc.prerm Log: don't call the lib64 symlink handling code on kfreebsd-amd64, because the ELF PI ships i

Bug#632682: kfreebsd-amd64 and /lib64 -> lib symlink

2011-08-19 Thread Steve Langasek
64 on kfreebsd-amd64, but we do still want to get rid of the symlink itself. But since libc won't ship any files in /lib64 on kfreebsd-amd64, we don't need to do any special symlink handling, dpkg will drop it for us on upgrade. Fix committed - thanks for catching. -- Steve Langasek

r4892 - in glibc-package/trunk/debian: . control.in

2011-08-18 Thread Steve Langasek
Author: vorlon Date: 2011-08-19 05:49:57 + (Fri, 19 Aug 2011) New Revision: 4892 Modified: glibc-package/trunk/debian/changelog glibc-package/trunk/debian/control.in/main Log: Bump the multiarch-support minimum dependency for armhf, which settled its triplet only at the time i386 did. M

r4891 - in glibc-package/trunk/debian: . debhelper.in rules.d sysdeps

2011-08-18 Thread Steve Langasek
(rev 4891) @@ -25,8 +25,16 @@ * debian/patches/hurd-i386/submitted-ioctl-unsigned-size_t.diff: Add u?int{8,16,32,64} ioctl types. - -- Samuel Thibault Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:10:09 +0200 + [ Steve Langasek ] + * Install ld*.so to RTLDDIR (/lib64 or /lib), as appropriate, and convert

Bug#632682: we should probably remove /lib64 -> lib symlink (with care)

2011-08-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 09:00:52AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-08-18 01:05 +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: > > The right way to handle it is to create the directory under a separate > > name, populate the symlink, and only *then* rm /lib64 and invoke mv > > /

Bug#632682: we should probably remove /lib64 -> lib symlink (with care)

2011-08-18 Thread Steve Langasek
ast step ENOENT failing, because it > had already renamed the file to foo/x. > Run "strace -erename dpkg -i …/fakeroot*.deb" in the above situation to > see for yourself. Ahhh, ok. So it's by accident that this causes a problem for dpkg, because dpkg has moved its own

Bug#632682: we should probably remove /lib64 -> lib symlink (with care)

2011-08-18 Thread Steve Langasek
n't think that's an accurate interpretation of what's happening in that bug, but would need to see the filesystem to say what is happening. But as the error is "no such file or directory", it probably means it's managed to get itself into a situation of trying to unpack a

Bug#632682: we should probably remove /lib64 -> lib symlink (with care)

2011-08-17 Thread Steve Langasek
ooks good. I'll merge these up (with the above-mentioned changes) and put it through its paces here. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Bug#635685: general: gcc -m32 has no access to system-specific includes in multiarch world

2011-07-29 Thread Steve Langasek
urging and reinstalling libc6-dev-i386, > "apt-get -b source bzip2" actually succeeds. > On i386 however, libc6-dev 2.13-11 still ships files under > /usr/include/{sys,gnu,bits}, so that ncurses is unbuildable even in a > clean chroot. Yes, which is why I told you to file

Bug#635685: general: gcc -m32 has no access to system-specific includes in multiarch world

2011-07-29 Thread Steve Langasek
the only package shipping files in this directory; so if you have one of these packages installed, the /usr/include/sys directory will fail to be replaced by a symlink as intended. So that's definitely a bug and needs to be fixed. I'm not sure if it's the bug that Tim and you a

Re: Bug#635685: general: gcc -m32 has no access to system-specific includes in multiarch world

2011-07-28 Thread Steve Langasek
directory `/usr/local/src/deb-src/ncurses/ncurses/obj-64' > | make: *** [build-64] Error 2 > ` > It seems libc6-dev multiarch support needs to go back to the drawing > board again. Sven, please file a separate bug report for this issue. -- Steve Langasek Give me

r4818 - glibc-package/trunk/debian/sysdeps

2011-07-25 Thread Steve Langasek
Author: vorlon Date: 2011-07-25 21:48:43 + (Mon, 25 Jul 2011) New Revision: 4818 Modified: glibc-package/trunk/debian/sysdeps/amd64.mk glibc-package/trunk/debian/sysdeps/i386.mk glibc-package/trunk/debian/sysdeps/powerpc.mk glibc-package/trunk/debian/sysdeps/ppc64.mk glibc-packa

r4817 - glibc-package/trunk/debian/sysdeps

2011-07-25 Thread Steve Langasek
Author: vorlon Date: 2011-07-25 18:57:55 + (Mon, 25 Jul 2011) New Revision: 4817 Modified: glibc-package/trunk/debian/sysdeps/amd64.mk glibc-package/trunk/debian/sysdeps/i386.mk glibc-package/trunk/debian/sysdeps/powerpc.mk glibc-package/trunk/debian/sysdeps/ppc64.mk glibc-packa

r4816 - in glibc-package/trunk/debian: . control.in rules.d sysdeps

2011-07-25 Thread Steve Langasek
@@ [ Jeremie Koenig ] * Add debian/libc0.3.symbols.hurd-i386. + [ Steve Langasek ] + * Try again to make libc6-dev multiarch-same. + -- Aurelien Jarno Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:01:11 +0200 eglibc (2.13-10) unstable; urgency=low Modified: glibc-package/trunk/debian/control.in/amd64

Bug#632667: empty biarch -dev packages

2011-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
ented here because long-running Conflicts/Replaces for packages that are in the archive in parallel are generally bad; but ultimately, either should do the job. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can

r4812 - glibc-package

2011-07-23 Thread Steve Langasek
Author: vorlon Date: 2011-07-23 07:13:45 + (Sat, 23 Jul 2011) New Revision: 4812 Removed: glibc-package/tunk/ Log: remove Steve's 'I spal gud' branch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

r4811 - glibc-package

2011-07-23 Thread Steve Langasek
Author: vorlon Date: 2011-07-23 07:11:14 + (Sat, 23 Jul 2011) New Revision: 4811 Added: glibc-package/trunk/ Removed: glibc-package/trunk/ Log: Create new branch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

r4810 - in glibc-package: . tunk/debian/rules.d

2011-07-23 Thread Steve Langasek
Author: vorlon Date: 2011-07-23 07:06:56 + (Sat, 23 Jul 2011) New Revision: 4810 Added: glibc-package/tunk/ Modified: glibc-package/tunk/debian/rules.d/debhelper.mk Log: makefile, not a shell script; don't forget our line continuations. Modified: glibc-package/tunk/debian/rules.d/debhel

Bug#632509: multiarch: libc.preinst assumes libc is previously unpacked

2011-07-02 Thread Steve Langasek
this, which will be uploaded to Ubuntu shortly. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/

Bug#629534: Upgrade fails, resulting in unusable system (no dynamic linking)

2011-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
tags 629534 patch thanks The attached (untested) patch is based on an IRC conversation with Aurélien yesterday about this bug. If there are any other copies of ld-2.x.so in /lib that dpkg doesn't know about, we should abort the upgrade until these have been removed. -- Steve Lan

Bug#619186: Fix multiarch FHS exception for i386 in light of recent discussions

2011-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
e for implementation and the interface packages should use to query these paths. Cc:ing the respective maintainer mailing lists for sign-off. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the

multiarch support: ldconfig needs to look at system paths

2011-03-17 Thread Steve Langasek
es this by bringing ldconfig's view into line with that of ld.so. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slang

multiarch support: architecture-independent lintian overrides

2011-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
match. This also fixes the filenames in the override file to match the current 2.13 in experimental. I'm also going to follow up with a patch against lintian so that overrides for ld.so aren't needed in the future. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a

multiarch support patches

2011-03-09 Thread Steve Langasek
g-dev support will be added in the upcoming 1.16.0 dpkg release. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/

Re: RFC: use of shlib bump for libc dependency on new multiarch directories?

2011-02-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 01:55:57PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: > > A virtual package is a good idea, though - in fact, it's such a good idea > > that I remember now we discussed this back at DebConf and I'd subsequent

Re: RFC: use of shlib bump for libc dependency on new multiarch directories?

2011-02-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:03:18AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org) [110223 22:53]: > > We can handle this one of two ways. We can either bump the minimal > > dependency of *all* packages against libc, by adjusting shlibs/symbols in > > the

Re: RFC: use of shlib bump for libc dependency on new multiarch directories?

2011-02-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:55:51PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 at 13:52:35 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > we almost certainly will not be using the path which has been enabled > > in glibc up to now, namely /lib/i486-linux-gnu. > I'd heard that, and

Re: RFC: use of shlib bump for libc dependency on new multiarch directories?

2011-02-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:15:02PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 01:52:35PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > [1] i486 is an arbitrary name that happens to correspond to the base > > instruction set that was in use on Debian at the time multiarch was first >

RFC: use of shlib bump for libc dependency on new multiarch directories?

2011-02-23 Thread Steve Langasek
ce for Pre-Depends that debhelper can hook into. Since this is an issue with high potential impact on squeeze->wheezy upgrades, Aurélien suggested that we solicit input from the release team here. Do you guys have any recommendations on how we should handle this, or any other concer

Bug#612700: please mark tzdata as Multi-Arch: foreign

2011-02-09 Thread Steve Langasek
r consideration - see attached patch. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/

Re: Bug#575209 closed by Holger Levsen (Re: Bug#575209: general: Error resolving hostname [resent])

2010-03-25 Thread Steve Langasek
DNS, which is *not* the same thing as querying a hostname. It's valid and reasonable for those tools to return the records present in DNS even when those records aren't well-formed hostnames. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Bug#539950: when /etc/hosts doesn't exist, apt fails to resolve hostnames using libc6 2.10.1

2009-08-11 Thread Steve Langasek
tags 533950 patch thanks Hi, Here's a patch that fixes getaddrinfo() (derived from Aurélien's patch at http://www.eglibc.org/archives/patches/msg00738.html). Confirmed to work in Ubuntu karmic, and uploaded in eglibc 2.10.1-0ubuntu6. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give

Bug#517795: glibc wants to restart xscreensaver, which has no init script

2009-03-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 07:36:26PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Package: libc6 > Version: 2.9-3 > Severity: normal > After acknowledging the latest glibc upgrade, libc6 spits out a warning > message: > Preparing to replace libc6 2.7-18 (using .../g/glibc/li

Bug#517795: glibc wants to restart xscreensaver, which has no init script

2009-03-01 Thread Steve Langasek
Package: libc6 Version: 2.9-3 Severity: normal After acknowledging the latest glibc upgrade, libc6 spits out a warning message: Preparing to replace libc6 2.7-18 (using .../g/glibc/libc6_2.9-3_i386.deb) ... Checking for services that may need to be restarted... Checking init scripts... WARNIN

Re: correct definition of localhost?

2008-07-08 Thread Steve Langasek
n > who can explain the reasoning for the change... Ulrich made the change, and he's not exactly known for giving helpful explanations. Apparently he thinks bug ping-pong is a better use of his time. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: correct definition of localhost?

2008-07-06 Thread Steve Langasek
uplicate records are weeded out by the server. If you can suggest a DNS server that would not condense the duplicate records, I'd be happy to test to see what the behavior of nss_dns is. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

correct definition of localhost?

2008-07-06 Thread Steve Langasek
place, but I don't know the rationale behind this special-casing either. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://w

Bug#489586: getaddrinfo() results depend on whether getXXbyYY_r() has been called first

2008-07-06 Thread Steve Langasek
of the getXXbyYY_r functions is called first. The behavior of getaddrinfo() should not be dependent on whether unrelated calls have done the setup of these internal structures; it should directly do the same initialization of the resolver config before calling the NSS backends. -- Steve Langasek

Re: Proposal(s) for handling libqt3-mt situation

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
still be there in the lenny+1 libqt3 package, since nothing else would enforce at the package level that a user doesn't partially upgrade to lenny and then partially upgrade again to lenny+1. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Fre

Re: Processed (with 1 errors): Re: glibc: floor() is giving incorrect results on alpha architecture

2007-11-16 Thread Steve Langasek
68 occurs even on systems that have math-emu loaded. If you have reason to believe this is still a kernel bug, please provide that information so that the issue can be traced further. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Deb

Bug#442568: more info

2007-11-16 Thread Steve Langasek
"0.00", indicating a total failure of the fp operation rather than the off-by-one error described in this bug report. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#447433: iconv TRANSLIT behavior is locale-dependent?

2007-10-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 03:07:06PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: >> I don't see any reason that the behavior of iconv should be dependent on >> the >> locale in which it's invoked. > See http://osdir.com/ml/linux.lfs.deve

Bug#447433: iconv TRANSLIT behavior is locale-dependent?

2007-10-21 Thread Steve Langasek
be dependent on the locale in which it's invoked. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To U

Re: glibc's getaddrinfo() sort order

2007-09-23 Thread Steve Langasek
, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 06:19:10PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > So do you have a use case where you think the behavior described in rule 9 > > *is* desirable? > Any application written assuming this behaviour, works correctly on > Windows, Solaris,

Re: glibc's getaddrinfo() sort order

2007-09-20 Thread Steve Langasek
IP assignment. So do you have a use case where you think the behavior described in rule 9 *is* desirable? Even if you do have one, I still don't see any reason to think this is a reasonable default behavior on the real-world Internet. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long

Re: glibc's getaddrinfo() sort order

2007-09-09 Thread Steve Langasek
ly results in pessimal behavior and should not be a default. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.d

Bug#441360: locales 2.6.1-2 ships /etc/default/locale as a conffile

2007-09-08 Thread Steve Langasek
that will cause inappropriate conffile prompts when upgrading any Debian system installed in the past 4 years. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: linux/types.h <-> glibc interferences

2007-08-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:06:36AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 02:46:14PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Is there some specific reported issue that this change is intended to fix? > > I haven't noticed any complaints about the current behavior.

Re: linux/types.h <-> glibc interferences

2007-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
mple of code that probably breaks with this change, I offer you aboot, the alpha bootloader; it's not great code, but we have to maintain it all the same...) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set i

Bug#432759: RM: linux-kernel-headers -- RoRW; obsolete, superseded by linux-libc-dev

2007-07-11 Thread Steve Langasek
ckage is no longer of any use in the archive. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBS

Bug#422067: glibc_2.5-5 (alpha/unstable): FTBFS: CFI instruction used without previous .cfi_startproc

2007-05-03 Thread Steve Langasek
it should of course be reassigned. The -save-temps output that binutils chokes on is attached for reference. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the

Bug#408850: conflicting stat prototypes on alpha

2007-04-30 Thread Steve Langasek
/usr/include/sys/stat.h:414: error: previous declaration of ‘__fxstat64’ was here line 414 is surely the same in both cases, yet there is a perceived conflict. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can

Re: [etch r1] glibc 2.3.6.ds1-13etch1

2007-04-19 Thread Steve Langasek
t; upload it? > * debian/patches/alpha/local-waitpid-not-cancel.diff: new patch (fix defunct > threads on alpha) from Uwe Schindler. Closes: #325600. I haven't looked at this particular patch, but with my alpha porter hat I strongly encourage the SRMs to accept a fix for this bug. Che

Bug#411542: libc6: does not create /etc/ld.so.conf for broken installations

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Langasek
st take into account > broken installations due to a previous bug in libc6. As this does not (AIUI) affect upgrades from sarge, this is not a "must" for the release; downgrading. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: glibc 2.3.6.ds1-12

2007-02-17 Thread Steve Langasek
ded twice, once as any/cvs-sunrpc-xdrmem_setpos.diff and once as all/backport-sunrpc-xdrmem_setpos.diff? There's also a new patches/glob-test.diff that doesn't seem to be used anywhere. Unblocked, in any case. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever

Bug#406128: libc6-i686: xmms mplayer alsaplayer and maybe others segfault

2007-01-08 Thread Steve Langasek
d in a short period, but some days ago i noticed that xmms and > alsaplayer segfaulted as well. I've been using xmms on my system with libc6-i686 installed, and have no problems with it whatsoever. Please provide a gdb backtrace from such a crash. -- Steve Langasek Give

Bug#397276: libc6-i386: file conflicts with lib32gfortran0

2006-11-06 Thread Steve Langasek
e lib32gfortran1 package from gcc-4.1 does not have this bug. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -

Bug#391529: Etch installer freezed by tzdata

2006-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
severity 391529 important thanks According to the d-i release manager, the installer has been modified to not hang even if tzdata tries to prompt directly, so this bug is no longer release-critical. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Bug#395135: Please requeue gclcvs_2.7.0-62 on alpha

2006-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
5b6a30, 0x8, 0x1fd, 0x2557c58, 0, 0x7b0a75b, 0x2689740, 0x11f268fa0, 0, 0x4082904a484b2a29, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0x3fe0, 0x154e, 0x40b54ee66000, 0x40b54e666000, 0, 0x3fe66000 --- SIGPROF (Profiling timer expired) @ 0 (0) --- <... syscall_513 resumed> )

Bug#395135: Please requeue gclcvs_2.7.0-62 on alpha

2006-10-26 Thread Steve Langasek
at any of this is -- I /could/ give it to the buildd to try, but I really don't have any reason to believe it will build any better there. Do you have any idea what this syscall is supposed to be? Are we looking at a glibc bug here? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long e

Bug#395135: Please requeue gclcvs_2.7.0-62 on alpha

2006-10-24 Thread Steve Langasek
s to 2.6.17? :P Otherwise, here is a proposed patch that fixes this latest detected regression in l-k-h 2.6.18. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#394381: gdb: FTBFS, indirectly uses PAGE_SIZE

2006-10-21 Thread Steve Langasek
I think this bug definitely belongs to glibc as there is no reason to patch gdb. Reassigning accordingly. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#394385: PAGE_SIZE is incorrectly exposed

2006-10-20 Thread Steve Langasek
defined on a number of these archs, but there's no sense in having to fix the same bug again later the next time the kernel changes... Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.

Re: Bug#393007: FTBFS: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before '_llseek'

2006-10-14 Thread Steve Langasek
te. Can the glibc maintainers confirm this? If this is the case, I think we need to seriously consider reverting the change for etch, given the number of packages affected (and given that the change inadvertently snuck into testing because the release team failed to freeze l-k-h along with the

Bug#387446: glibc: Please compile for (/usr)/lib64 on amd64 as per FHS

2006-09-14 Thread Steve Langasek
That probably means that a change for this would not be accepted into etch, since fiddling library paths may have unexpected side-effects and glibc is already frozen. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on,

Bug#368587: invoke-rc.d: initscript nscd, action "stop" failed.

2006-05-23 Thread Steve Langasek
a potential security hole. The real question here is why the init script is failing to stop nscd on your system. This may or may not warrant an RC severity; probably not, since it hasn't been reported before now. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a

Bug#368587: invoke-rc.d: initscript nscd, action "stop" failed.

2006-05-23 Thread Steve Langasek
the /etc/init.d/nscd stop command must not fail. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#365547: manpage issues

2006-05-10 Thread Steve Langasek
aces: glibc-doc (<< 2.3.6-7) would be quite a bit nicer on apt. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ sign

Bug#361048: locales: locale settings lost after upgrade

2006-04-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 09:58:41AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > [Steve Langasek] > > Right. The locales package still shouldn't be trying to "clean up" this > > config file, because two wrong writes to the file don't make a right write. > > :) > I un

Bug#361048: locales: locale settings lost after upgrade

2006-04-13 Thread Steve Langasek
ared a simple patch, which I've attached. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ diff -u glibc-2.3.

Re: EV67 optimized libc6.1

2006-04-13 Thread Steve Langasek
ple.debian.org/~aurel32/ev67 Tested in a chroot on an ev56 system, 2.6.15 kernel. No problems, it continues to use /lib correctly. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMA

Re: glibc_2.3.6-6_i386.changes REJECTED

2006-04-11 Thread Steve Langasek
versions that don't, and you need some way to pull libc-bin in for those versions that do need it.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#361048: locales: locale settings lost after upgrade

2006-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
oes the locales package have editing this file at all? This is arguably a severity: serious policy violation for munging the config files of other packages. It's fine to create a new config file and populate it using /etc/environment as input, but you shouldn't be deleting any information

Re: Please allow glibc 2.3.6-3 in testing

2006-03-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 03:43:02PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > It was blocked by some critical bugs which have been lowered and/or > properly tagged, so the only remaining issue is that it is frozen > because of udebs. Can you please let it enter testing? Yes, hint added. Cheers,

Re: Multiarch support (was Moving 32-bit libraries to (/usr)/lib32 on amd64)

2006-02-24 Thread Steve Langasek
g" the work. I think this is the right point to stop at on glibc right now -- we really need to have support for multiarch in dpkg an apt before usefully proceeding further. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to

Re: Multiarch support (was Moving 32-bit libraries to (/usr)/lib32 on amd64)

2006-02-23 Thread Steve Langasek
putting files in /usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu/ may be premature. Has thought been given to what this means for the upgrade path when (...if) dpkg is extended to support installing Arch: i386 multiarch debs directly on amd64? I suppose it should just be a Replaces:, but it still seems like it will be an extra unnecessary transition. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Moving 32-bit libraries to (/usr)/lib32 on amd64

2006-02-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 11:10:41AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 02:23 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > If there's > > consensus that putting this stuff in /usr/lib32 on amd64 is prettier than > > /emul/ia32-linux, I see no reason not to move forwar

Re: Moving 32-bit libraries to (/usr)/lib32 on amd64

2006-02-20 Thread Steve Langasek
hough, it would be really really nice if multiarch happened, so that making a lib multiarch-safe only required adjusting the paths the package installs to, consistently across *all* architectures, and no more fiddling with package names and doing double-builds on each architecture

Re: Bug#350501: nscd: [hppa] error while loading shared libraries: unexpected reloc type 0x42

2006-02-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 01:15:03PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:21:03AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > This bug is already being ignored (manually) for testing. Please don't > > munge bugs just to make britney happy. > Great, thanks. So all w

Bug#350501: nscd: [hppa] error while loading shared libraries: unexpected reloc type 0x42

2006-02-09 Thread Steve Langasek
pen it afterwards. This is ugly, > > but I do not know of a better solution. > That doesn't look good at all to me. Better ask release managers, > hence CCing debian-release. This bug is already being ignored (manually) for testing. Please don't munge bugs just to make britn

Re: Bug#317082: Not just a dpkg bug

2006-01-24 Thread Steve Langasek
If you don't handle the -l, you won't be able to resolve a full path for these libs. If you have a package in this situation that's biarch and you have local libs for both the 32bit and the 64bit targets, how will you know which shlibs file to use if you don't look up the full

Re: Bug#317082: Not just a dpkg bug

2006-01-20 Thread Steve Langasek
ch path at all (e.g., objects intended for use with LD_PRELOAD or something). The only requirement is that dpkg have an internal representation of the library search path for the object type -- part of which comes from /etc/ld.so.conf, part of which is hard-coded in ld.so. Oh... and then there&#x

Re: Bug#317082: Not just a dpkg bug

2006-01-20 Thread Steve Langasek
k or file > in dynamic linker search path. Uh, consequently they are *not* unrelated: the soname specified in NEEDED *must* be a filename that exists on the system, be it symlink or otherwise, and per policy this file must be contained in the library package (as opposed to just being created by ldcon

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