Control: tags -1 + moreinfo On Mon, 2020-06-29 at 19:23 +0000, Mohammed Naser wrote: > The following bug was reported back in 2017: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=864018 > > Because of that bug, it's not possible to build certain packages from > source such as 'qemu' because it fails with the following: > > powerpc64-linux-gnu-ar: `u' modifier ignored since `D' is the default > (see `U')
I assume there's some missing detail here, because qemu has been built in the Debian archive multiple times since 2017. > The bug explains the details of why/how this issue is happening. We can't approve an update simply based on a pointer to a bug. Please attach a copy of the proposed debdiff against the current package in stable, having built and tested it on a stable system. Regards, Adam