Bug#291631: cmp/diff/etc. lack PT_GNU_STACK header
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr wrote:
> I made a statistic on my machine:
> 1341 are '-' and 76 are '?' so less than 1% has the problem.
>
> More importantly, there are all binaries that have been build a long
> time ago, with the exception of diffutils and rcs binaries.
>
> Since diffutils was uploaded the 19/01/2005 I see no explanation why
> it has the problem unless the maintainer built it on top of woody.
> (The gcc changes is dated Sun, 9 Nov 2003).
That's the correct explanation, yes. It has never been a bug to build
a package using stable if the dependencies are compatible with the
ones in testing. In this case, Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) is ok
because sarge has 2.3.2.ds1-20 and libc6 is not in oldlibs.
> > However, it could be that the lintian maintainer might be willing to add
> > a check for this, so I'm reassigning this to lintian as a wishlist.
>
> Why not just rebuild diffutils on top of current sid and closing this
> bug ? This has always been the recommended practice.
The recommended practice has always been not to submit bug reports for
things that would result in a lot of bugs being filed. That is massive
bug filing, so it should be discussed first.
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