Re: plans for d-i string freeze
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 06:17:41PM +0100, Thomas Poindessous wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 09:11:43PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> > Hi Joey and everyone, thanks for the cc. I'm willing to maintain
> > discover in maintainance mode, but if Progeny plans to focus on
> > discover2, I don't really see the point in keeping discover1 alive
> > beyond the sarge release. The fix from Thomas Poindessous isn't really
> > a fix at all, if you look at it. It seems the real bug is in
> > linux-kernel-headers, from what I can tell, so once that's fixed an
> > upload can be made. If anyone at all is interested in maintaining
> > discover1, I won't stand in their way.
>
> Hi !
>
> as I explained in the bts, the recent change in glibc and
> linux-kernel-headers has changed the way to handle inclusion of kernel
> headers.
>
> userland application ( like discover ) must copy headers they are using,
> they must not including kernel headers. Further informations can be
> found in glibc mailing list.
This is not a recent change. Ugly though it is, this has been the
canonical way to deal with kernel headers for a long, long time.
The switch to 2.6 headers that comes with the linux-kernel-headers
package simply broke a few more things that weren't following this rule,
but it's not the first time this has happened.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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