Re: bsdmainutils and bsdutils

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

Stéphane Glondu, le Sun 27 Jul 2008 04:39:29 +0200, a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > [... problems with bsdutils, man-db uninstallable ...]
> >> If not, is there anything that a user can do to work around this?
> > 
> > Use snapshot.debian.net to get a set of version that can work together.
> > Or help fixing the bug that prevent buildd from building it :)
> 
> I've investigated why util-linux (the source package of bsdutils) FTBFS
> on hurd, and I've found out that the latest version (in experimental)
> did a better job at spotting Linux-specific stuff. I've managed to build
> it with a small patch:
> 
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492542

Mmm, have you had a look at upstream mailing list? :)

Thanks for the debian part, it's indeed the time to do it now that
upstream is fixed.

Samuel