Bug#369890: silo: build-depends on gcc-2.95, which may be removed for etch
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 16:35 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Package: silo > Version: 1.4.11-0.2 > Severity: serious > > The silo bootloader package build-depends on gcc-2.95 at the version > currently in unstable, making it the only package of any substance which > does so. The gcc-2.95 package itself is RC-buggy, failing to build with the > current version of make; since there has been no interest expressed in > fixing this bug by the maintainer, the likely outcome is that gcc-2.95 will > be dropped from etch, leaving sparc without a releasable bootloader. > > There are two possible solutions: > > - silo gets updated to use a more recent compiler, dropping this build-dep > - someone adopts gcc-2.95, fixing the FTBFS, and maintaining it for etch Just change the build-dep, it should be needed anymore. If it's hardcoded in the makefile, change that too. -- Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com/ Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ SwissDisk - http://www.swissdisk.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#346085: Please fix outstanding afbinit bugs
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 21:44 -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: > tags 346085 patch > severity 346085 serious > thanks > > Hi Ben, > > This bug recently came up on sparclinux list, and the fix by Ian > Viemeister has been acked by Dave Miller and confirmed working by gentoo > people. Since afbinit is currently broken with sid kernels, I'm bumping > the severity up a bit. It would be very nice to upload a new afbinit, > fixing this bug and #250619, which has been open for over a year and a > half now. If you don't have time to do that, I would be glad to prepare a > fixed package, which you or Frans Pop could upload. Would be even nice if I could do the upload. Someone will have to NMU it. -- Ben Collins Kernel Developer - Ubuntu Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#316573: move of files in /var/lib/misc to /var/lib/db silently breaks scripts depending on libnss-db
And the real question is, why did an NMU change it in the first place. On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 01:11:48AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Package: libnss-db > Version: 2.2-6.3 > Severity: grave > > The last NMU moved /var/lib/misc/Makefile to /var/lib/db/Makefile. > It's not mentioned in the changelog, it breaks existing scripts. > sorry, that's just bad style for a NMU. > > -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ SwissDisk - http://www.swissdisk.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
