On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Thorsten Glaser <t.gla...@tarent.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
>
>> I don't feel this as a so important bug to request a freeze exception.
>> Do you think it is worth an unblock request?
>
> I’d like to ask the RT for it, if you agree with including it
> if they give their okay, yes. Multi-Arch support is a Release
> Goal, and chroot compatibility is not unimportant either.
>
> That is, if you have a look over the patch and don’t have any
> thing against my solution for it.
>
>> I planned an upload with only the fix for the FTBFS in a couple of day.
>
> OK. (If you need a sponsor for that – I can do that today.)
[...]
>> You're right, I should add a Pre-Depends as you did. If you want you
>> might commit+push this change to the repo.
>
> Okay, will do.

I'm using the jessie branch for this, given that I already merged 105 in the 
master branch.
I'm ok, if you want to commit+push+tag+upload, I'll file un unblock request 
before evening.
I think a team upload would be the best in this case.

>> Maybe we can include this change to an upload targeting experimental,
>> asking for pre-approval and once obtained upload to unstable? what do
>> you think of this plan?
>
> Good idea, yes. I can do both uploads, if you want.

>> My plan (with upstream ack) was to rewrite eatmydata.sh.in and
>> eatmydata.in in a single eatmydata script, forward it to upstream,
>
> This is more or less what I did – except this solution will
> probably(!) only work with GNU ld.so (I’d have to try BSD’s,
> but Debian GNU/kFreeBSD uses GNU’s so no trouble there, and
> I know it ignores Darwin).
>
> But I could extend the script to add back support for the
> other ld.so types in the way upstream currently uses.

Let me re-read it, please. I noted something I'd like to change, but I never 
thought about others linker, I'd like to understand better the implications. 
Will reply once I clear my doubts.
Before night I'll tell you "something".

> Sure. I would, of course, be willing to help and change the
> script accordingly. (Being author of a shell has got to be
> worth something, after all…)

Great, thanks! I'm sure I'll use your help ;)

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