On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Matthias Klose <[email protected]> wrote: > where do you get this number? It is definitely not 400 or more.
I may be completely off base here, but I got that number from two independent methods. First, by parsing the build logs at [1], I found a list of 434 packages which match a build failure of the following form: /usr/bin/ld: XXXX.o: undefined reference to symbol 'XXXX' /usr/bin/ld: note: 'XXXX' is defined in DSO /usr/lib/libXXXX.so.X so try adding it to the linker command line I placed a list of those packages online here [2]. Those FTBFS are solely from the change that removes indirect linking, as they did build in Maverick. Second, from [3], there are 416 packages that have not been fixed in Debian yet, so there is a high probability that those packages still FTBFS in Natty. Those bugs include all forms of FTBFS caused by the DSO linking changes. There are also an additional 298 packages that have been fixed in Debian that may have been fixed in experimental (because of the freeze) and would require manual syncing. Those two data points, combined, leads me to believe that there are 400+ packages that are failing to build in Natty. Because of the Debian freeze, we should not expect fixes to end up in unstable and thus propagate to Ubuntu. Ubuntu would have to create diffs to fix those FTBFS. [1] http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu_ftbfs.cgi [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScottHoward/FTBFSreport [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=no-add-needed;[email protected] # Outstanding bugs -- Important bugs; Patch Available (22 bugs) # Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Patch Available (7 bugs) # Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Confirmed (2 bugs) # Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Unclassified (363 bugs) # Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; More information needed (2 bugs) # Forwarded bugs -- Important bugs (1 bug) # Forwarded bugs -- Normal bugs (1 bug) # Forwarded bugs -- Minor bugs (18 bugs) -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
