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Re: Bug#864233: unblock: linux/4.9.30-1



On Tue, 2017-06-06 at 01:24 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-06-06 at 01:29 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > This includes many important bug fixes, including security fixes.  It
> > > adds support for system reset on Malta boards, additional GPUs on
> > > ARM64 systems, and PL011 serial consoles on ARM64 systems.  It makes
> > > the efivarfs module available in the installer, which is important for
> > > supporting some x86 systems.
> > > 
> > > The debdiff would be too large for you to review, unfortunately.
> > > Instead, here are the changelog entries:
> > > 
> > > linux (4.9.30-1) unstable; urgency=medium
> > 
> > JFTR: This upload of linux 4.9.30-1 to unstable made at least one
> > package start to FTBFS in unstable, namely radvd. Please see
> > https://bugs.debian.org/864269 for details.
> 
> radvd's autoconf test for <linux/if.h> has probably failed at least
> since Linux 2.6.32 when I made sure the kernel headers would never
> define struct sockaddr for userland:
> <https://git.kernel.org/linus/9c501935a3cdcf6b1d35aaee3aa11c7a7051a305>
> 
> But the conflict between <linux/if_arp.h> and <net/if_arp.h> is far
> older than that, so if the test ever passed it should have resulted in
> this build failure.  I think that's a clear bug in radvd.  It should
> use either one or the other, and I think the sensible thing is to use
> <net/if_arp.h> as it has been doing up until now.

I intend to drop the kernel patch that triggered this regression in the
first update for stretch.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
It is easier to write an incorrect program than to understand a correct
one.

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