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Re: Bug#590226: linux-tools-2.6: uninstallable



On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 15:30 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 15:16:50 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 01:12:42PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 09:27 +0300, Török Edwin wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > Why does linux-tools-2.6 require a specific version of binutils?
> > > It uses libbfd.
> > 
> > Okay, so linux-2.6 is now part of a much larger bunch of tightly coupled
> > packages.
> 
> perf in "bundling userspace utilities in the kernel source tree is a bad
> idea" shocker.
> 
> Would it be possible to link it against libbfd.a instead?

This might be sensible, as it will otherwise be impossible to keep
linux-tools-* installed for a wide range of different kernel versions.
However we would need to discuss this with the FTP and security teams.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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