Bug#234236: grave

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Mon, 10 May 2004 07:21:18 +0200,
Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> GOTO Masanori wrote:
> > At Mon, 3 May 2004 18:50:18 +0100,
> > Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > > severity 234236 grave
> > > thanks
> > > 
> > > This is a grave bug since it keeps about 10-15 packages from building
> > > on mips.
> > 
> > Which packages did this bug affect?  I agreed with Thiemo's and
> > Goswin's opinion:
> >
> > > I wonder if it would be time to convert fdisk to _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 for
> > > linux on all archs instead of 32 bit + _llseek hacks.
> > 
> > > But then, util-linux should use more portable means than kernel headers,
> > > like the syscall() interface.
> > 
> > So I don't think it's grave for linux-kernel-headers.
> 
> Glibc itself might break as well, probably in non-obvious ways, if built
> against this version of l-k-h.
> 
> The patch is obviously correct, and already in the upstream repository
> (www.linux-mips.org).

I don't discuss the correctness of this patch; my question is: which
packages are this patch needed.  If it's really serious, we just do
upload the new lkh.  My opinion is: if util-linux is the only package
to be affected this problem, fix util-linux before fixing glibc.

Regards,
-- gotom