Re: powerpc and s390: buildd environments screwed?

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com> wrote:

>> > I don't really like the idea of bin-NMUing all those packages without
>> > understanding the cause. If it turns out to be a real bug somewhere that
>> > needs fixing, the whole bin-NMU dance will have to be done all over
>> > again.
>>
>> Me neither, but I am not qualified to find out the cause.  Josselin
>> (libpng maintainer, again in the Cc) already said he had no idea either,
>> except toolchain changes on the affected arches.  Maybe Ryan has some
>> insight as buildd admin?
>
> The obvious assumption would be that we've gone through an
> unintended ABI change. That's very bad. Oh well. It happened.
> Let's put it behind us. Life goes on.
>
> Not that the cause wouldn't be interesting of course.

More than interesting: If it wasn't an unintended ABI change, as
Josselin asserted, then what else was it?  Will that "else" occur again?
How can it be prevented?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer