Bug#860013: Bug#824442: and conflict needs to be resolved

[Diederik de Haas]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 23:28:41 +0100 Ben Hutchings  wrote:
> Control: severity -1 important
> Control: severity 824442 important
> 
> On Tue, 2017-04-11 at 23:20 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > On 2017-04-11 03:35, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > Control: tag -1 moreinfo
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 10:48:45 +0200 Aurelien Jarno 
> > > wrote:
> > > [...] 
> > > > Unfortunately I have been pointed on the libc-alpha mailing list that
> > > > it doesn't work if another file which includes 
> > > > (e.g. ) is included before . The problem is
> > > > that the __UAPI_DEF_IF_* constants are set to 1 in  > > > compat.h> even if  is not included.
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > Does this affect any real programs, or is this just theoretical (and
> > > therefore should be downgraded)?
> > 
> > It depends what do you mean by real program. I doubt it still affect
> > debian packages. The change has been introduced by kernel 4.5, and I
> > guess by now all the FTBFS have been fixed. At least for stretch, they
> > might be a few left in sid.
> 
> While the fix in the kernel is clearly incomplete, I think it must have
> worked for most programs.
> 
> > Now some of the fixes might not have reached upstream yet.
> > 
> > If we consider that acceptable, we can lower the severity of the bugs on
> > both the kernel and the glibc side.
> 
> Let's do that.

It has now been 5.5 years since the last message to this bug report.
What's the status? Should something be done?

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Bug#860013: Bug#824442: and conflict needs to be resolved

[Ben Hutchings]

Control: severity -1 important
Control: severity 824442 important

On Tue, 2017-04-11 at 23:20 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On 2017-04-11 03:35, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Control: tag -1 moreinfo
> > 
> > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 10:48:45 +0200 Aurelien Jarno  
> > wrote:
> > [...] 
> > > Unfortunately I have been pointed on the libc-alpha mailing list that
> > > it doesn't work if another file which includes 
> > > (e.g. ) is included before . The problem is
> > > that the __UAPI_DEF_IF_* constants are set to 1 in 
> > > even if  is not included.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > Does this affect any real programs, or is this just theoretical (and
> > therefore should be downgraded)?
> 
> It depends what do you mean by real program. I doubt it still affect
> debian packages. The change has been introduced by kernel 4.5, and I
> guess by now all the FTBFS have been fixed. At least for stretch, they
> might be a few left in sid.

While the fix in the kernel is clearly incomplete, I think it must have
worked for most programs.

> Now some of the fixes might not have reached upstream yet.
> 
> If we consider that acceptable, we can lower the severity of the bugs on
> both the kernel and the glibc side.

Let's do that.

Ben.

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Bug#860013: Bug#824442: and conflict needs to be resolved

[Aurelien Jarno]

On 2017-04-11 03:35, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
> 
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 10:48:45 +0200 Aurelien Jarno  
> wrote:
> [...] 
> > Unfortunately I have been pointed on the libc-alpha mailing list that
> > it doesn't work if another file which includes 
> > (e.g. ) is included before . The problem is
> > that the __UAPI_DEF_IF_* constants are set to 1 in 
> > even if  is not included.
> [...]
> 
> Does this affect any real programs, or is this just theoretical (and
> therefore should be downgraded)?

It depends what do you mean by real program. I doubt it still affect
debian packages. The change has been introduced by kernel 4.5, and I
guess by now all the FTBFS have been fixed. At least for stretch, they
might be a few left in sid.

Now some of the fixes might not have reached upstream yet.

If we consider that acceptable, we can lower the severity of the bugs on
both the kernel and the glibc side.

Aurelien

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Bug#860013: Bug#824442: and conflict needs to be resolved

[Ben Hutchings]

Control: tag -1 moreinfo

On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 10:48:45 +0200 Aurelien Jarno  wrote:
[...] 
> Unfortunately I have been pointed on the libc-alpha mailing list that
> it doesn't work if another file which includes 
> (e.g. ) is included before . The problem is
> that the __UAPI_DEF_IF_* constants are set to 1 in 
> even if  is not included.
[...]

Does this affect any real programs, or is this just theoretical (and
therefore should be downgraded)?

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
73.46% of all statistics are made up.



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