Re: Bug#864269: Bug#864233: unblock: linux/4.9.30-1
On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 03:29:39PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-06-06 at 01:24 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-06-06 at 01:29 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
FWIW the FTBFS of radvd has been fixed.
Indeed by dropping linux/if_arp.h in favour of net/if_arp.h
Groeten
Geert Stappers
DD, maintainer of radvd
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