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Bug#737567: marked as done (mopd: Fails to handle Elf32 image: NetBSD 6.1.3 vax)

Your message dated Fri, 06 Mar 2015 19:31:45 +0000
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and subject line Bug#750667: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #737567,
regarding mopd: Fails to handle Elf32 image: NetBSD 6.1.3 vax
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: mopd
Version: 1:2.5.3-21
Severity: normal

Hi,

I tried mopd with the NetBSD 6.1.3 (latest release) vax bootloader. Apparently
Debian mopd doesn't support it.

When I used installation/netboot/boot from NetBSD 6.1.3, mopd claimed to send
it, but the VAX (VAXstation 4000 VLC) could not use it and looped forever,
refetching the image and failing each time.

When I fell back to a pre-Elf32 bootloader (from NetBSD 1.4.1), mopd sent it
and the VAX booted it just fine.

I asked the port-vax@netbsd.org list about the problem and they concluded it is
likely mopd that is at fault because our mopd predates the one in netbsd that
added support for Elf32. Please see the response by Martin Husemann here:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/2014/02/03/msg002006.html

Unfortunately, Martin's suggestion that I try compiling NetBSD's mopd on Debian
does not work. The specific errors are probably not going to be interesting,
so I omit them -- it looks like NetBSD has a fundamentally different build
toolchain for starters, and there are probably other issues besides; I just
declared it a lost cause and decided to write this bug instead.

Please add Elf32 support to the Debian mopd so I can use it to boot a modern
free operating system on this hardware.

Thanks,
Ben

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mopd depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.52
ii  libc6                  2.17-97
ii  libelfg0               0.8.13-5

mopd recommends no packages.

mopd suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  mopd/other_interface:
* mopd/interface: eth0
  mopd/bad_interface:

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 1:2.5.3-22+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package mopd has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/750667

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org.

Debian distribution maintenance software
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Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)

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