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Re: request for valgrind backport



Pierre Habouzit schrieb am Monday, den 27. June 2011:

> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 02:13:56PM +0200, Cyril LAVIER wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:54:49 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> > >Dear all,
> > >
> > >  I would like to request a backport for valgrind. Because of bug
> > >#603961 valgrind in squeeze merely just segfault on PPC32. Eg:
> > >
> > >$ valgrind /bin/ls
> > >[1]    31897 segmentation fault  valgrind /bin/ls
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >--
> > >Mathieu
> > 
> > Hi Mathieu.
> > 
> > Thanks for the interest you have in the Debian Backports.
> > 
> > I think the maintainers will be more able to perform the backport,
> > to I've added them in CC (Andrès Roldan and Pierre Habouzit)
> > 
> > Thanks.
> 
> Sadly the patch cannot be easily backported as is as I changed the
> packaging to use quilt instead of dpatch and I don't know dpatch. It's
> really simple it's just a matter of compiling one single module with
> -O0.
> 
> I'd be happy if someone with dpatch knowledge would do that.
should be no more than:
dpatch-edit-patch --add2list PATCHNAME
*edit your file(s)*
*leave the shell*

Afterwards you should have a debian/patches/PATCHNAME.dpatch which is also listed in
debian/patches/00list.

Thats all

Alex


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