Bug#220517: linux-kernel-headers: I2C support broken, prevents building several packages
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:14:02PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > Kindly read any of the hundred explanations of this decision in the
> > -glibc or -devel archives before ranting about it.
>
> Been there, done that, still vehemently oppose to making libc6-dev
> depend upon the headers of a largely experimental and unproven kernel,
> namely 2.6-pre9.
If it makes a difference to anything you're trying to compile, then that
program is very likely buggy. Do not include <linux/*.h> directly; it's
as simple as that.
> libc6-dev must depend upon a _proven_, _stable_and _trustable_ kernel
> branch; 2.6 is not one of those, while 2.4 definitely is.
You still can't do NPTL with 2.4 headers, though.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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