Bug#750836: machine/atomic.h broken, missing __compiler_membar macro
Hi Steven,
FWIW from my POV the workarounds I implemented in tcpdump and libpcap
aren't long-term solutions, these bugs need to be fixed in time for
jessie, and thus need to be 'serious'. I only added the workarounds to
avoid having my testing migrations blocked by kfreebsd.
As things stand now, tcpdump can no longer use the pflog interface, and
libpcap no longer has zerocopy support for live captures, making them
considerably slower. These are noticeable feature regressions compared
to wheezy.
Fixing the headers should be pretty simple, yet the bugs have been open
for weeks with no response. I get the feeling that you're downgrading
severities to paper over the fact that there aren't any active kfreebsd
porters left. But getting RC bugs off the Release Team's radar won't
magically make the port healthy again.
--
Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org>
http://people.debian.org/~rfrancoise/
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