Bug#724747: libbsd-dev modifies libelf-dev's /usr/include/nlist.h

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 01:20:50 +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> severity 724747 serious
> thanks
> 
> Because this is a file conflict.

I'll leave this bug as serious, but not because of a supposed file
conflict, which there is none, but because the restored header is
binary incompatible with the ones from libelfg0-dev and libelf-dev.

On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 01:48:48 +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> There is surely a better way to provide /usr/include/nlist.h ?
> It seems it doesn't prevent what it's supposed to, see:
> http://bugs.debian.org/729536

That bug is unrelated. The intention here was to restore the nlist.h
header that had been previously Replaced by libbsd-dev, and once a
package stops Replacing another one the replaced files just disappear.
The problem is that the restoration should have been conditional on
the file not being existent, and now that I've checked it, simply
copying the libbsd-dev variant is not good either it should provide
compat headers. I'll fix that in the next upload, once alioth comes
back.

Thanks,
Guillem