Bug#638068: busybox binary in initrd.img is incorrectly overwritten by klibc hook

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On 15.01.2012 20:16, Émeric Maschino wrote:
> Le 15 janvier 2012 19:08, maximilian attems <max@stro.at> a écrit :
> > > Nice detective work. Â So the next question is: why does klibc-utils 
> > > on
> > > ia64 provide /usr/lib/klibc/bin/sh instead of sh.shared like other
> > > architectures?
> >
> > #439181 Â ia64 works only static
>
> Thanks for pointing this out.
>
> > > I'd also be interested to hear how /usr/lib/klibc/bin/sh behaves in
> > > general: e.g., could you try
> > >
> > > Â  Â  Â  ldd /usr/lib/klibc/bin/sh
> > > Â  Â  Â  /usr/lib/klibc/bin/sh -c 'echo hi'
> > >
> > > ?
> >
> > /me too.
>
> Okay, okay, your wish is my command ;-)
>
> emeric@longspeak:~$ ldd /usr/lib/klibc/bin/sh
>                not a dynamic executable

The above seems to be the most recent message in the bug log, other 
than a "me too" a few weeks ago.  Has there been any progress towards 
getting this resolved?  Unless I'm missing something, it sounds like a 
fairly large blocker to using Debian on ia64.

Regards,

Adam