Package: release.debian.org
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User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock

Please unblock package grub.  OK, so #769349 was tagged jessie-ignore,
but it was still a bit of a WTF moment for me to realise that there was
still static linking going on here, and it doesn't appear to have been
necessary for years.

diff -u grub-0.97/debian/changelog grub-0.97/debian/changelog
--- grub-0.97/debian/changelog
+++ grub-0.97/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+grub (0.97-70) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Stop linking statically on amd64, which was a holdover from a long time
+    ago when we couldn't just depend on biarch libraries (closes: #769349).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org>  Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:57:54 +0000
+
 grub (0.97-69) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Revert the parts of the CVS sync in 0.97-8 that introduced the GNU FDL,
diff -u grub-0.97/debian/rules grub-0.97/debian/rules
--- grub-0.97/debian/rules
+++ grub-0.97/debian/rules
@@ -50,10 +50,6 @@
 filesystems=e2fs ffs minix
 endif
 
-ifeq ($(DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU),x86_64)
-  LDFLAGS=-static
-endif
-
 include /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make
 
 configure: configure-stamp

unblock grub/0.97-70

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwat...@debian.org]


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