Bug#297769: patch

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

At Thu, 7 Apr 2005 23:46:51 -0700,
David Mosberger wrote:
>   GOTO> I fear to change this interface until sarge release because there
>   GOTO> might be another packages that uses sched_setaffinity.
> 
> Well, yes, schedutils probably would need updating.  I don't know of
> anything else, though.  We only care about the Debian packages for
> sarge, I assume, right?  If so, couldn't someone do a trivial find
> across all sources for sched_{s,g}et_affinity?  I'd be happy to
> volunteer to fix all the packages that are affected (I'm not too
> worried, the number will be very small, I'm sure of that).

Yes, fixing this issue is not difficult.

The problem I concerned is the symbol GLIBC_PRIVATE is defined as
GLIBC_2.3.4, not the current symbol GLIBC_2.3.3.  I'm not certain this
change does not cause any problems.

>   GOTO> I tender not to include the patch.  I would like to call your opinion
>   GOTO> about Bastian's patch.
> 
> That would really be unfortunate because it will mean that Debian is
> incompatible with all other modern distributions.  It's very likely
> that it will cause a lot more grief down the road because new software
> will break.  For example, recent LMbench3 releases started to use
> sched_setaffinity() and of course they use the correct (new)
> interface...

Indeed, but I would like to clear about the change of GLIBC_PRIVATE...

Regards,
-- gotom