Re: Bug #808205 inappropriately marked as closed
On 2016-02-16 16:11, Greg Alexander wrote:
> Hi -
>
> Sorry that I am not up on all of the details, but I have run into a bug
> that had already -- and incorrectly -- been marked closed. Many more
> people will be running into the same issue soon because of
> CVE-2015-7547-inspired updates over the next few days.
>
> Bug #808205 seems to be a version dependency between glibc and binutils
> that, from a user's perspective, breaks all compiles if binutils is not
> new enough. It seems that the bug was closed because the proper version
> of binutils became available. The good news is that I can confirm that
> upgrading binutils "fixes" the issue.
>
> However, apt is capable of resolving this issue before it presents to the
> user. Off the top of my head, I think the "Breaks:" line needs an entry
> like "binutils (<< 2.25.90.20151219-1)" (but I am no apt guru). The
> issue has definitely not been fixed if everyone updating glibc has to
> google the bug report to know to upgrade binutils.
This is nothing specific to glibc, but affects all static libraries.
This doesn't seem to make sense to fix thousand of source packages just
because of that, so it has been decided that we won't add a breaks
entry. In general partial upgrades are not supported.
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