Hi Aurelien On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Aurelien Jarno <aure...@debian.org> wrote: > control: severity -1 serious > > On 2016-08-11 01:25, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> Package: xautolock >> Version: 1:2.2-5 >> Severity: important >> Tags: patch upstream >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> glibc 2.24 has removed the deprecated BSD union wait type if favor of >> the POSIX.1 interface using W* macros from <sys/wait.h> (such as >> WEXITSTATUS) [1]. >> >> glibc 2.24 is already available in experimental and will plan to upload >> it to sid in the next days/weeks. This will cause xautolock to fail to >> build from source. You will find attached a patch to fix the issue. It >> unconditionally uses the "new" interface as the GNU libc supports it >> since at least 1995, probably even earlier. >> >> Please also note that this will not break the existing binaries, just >> building the package from source. > > glibc 2.24 is now in unstable, so I am upgrading the severity of this > bug to serious. If you don't have time to fix this bug, I can do a > non-maintainer upload with the patch which is in the bug log. >
Sorry for the late reply. I had wanted to do it but couldn't find time for various reasons. Feel free to do an NMU. I appreciate your help. Wei. > Aurelien > > -- > Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B > aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
