Re: Bug#686436: openafs-modules-dkms: Does not build with squeeze kernel: error: asm/errno.h: No such file or directory

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 12:21:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
[...]
> linux-libc-dev maintainers, when upgrading to squeeze, there is currently
> nothing preventing linux-libc-dev from being upgraded to a version that
> uses multiarch paths in advance of upgrading any compiler to understand
> those paths, which results in a broken C compilation environment.  In this
> case, this affected dkms, since dkms runs a compiler from postinst
> scripts.

linux-libc-dev is of course not used to build kernel modules.  But
perhaps openafs also needlessly rebuilds userland code every time the
kernel is upgraded.

> I believe linux-libc-dev needs the same Breaks logic as
> libc6-dev, namely something like:
> 
> Breaks: gcc-4.4 (<< 4.4.6-4), gcc-4.5 (<< 4.5.3-2), gcc-4.6 (<< 4.6.0-12)

That sounds plausible, yes.

Ben.

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