Re: recommended way to fix Bug#492814 ?
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:49:36AM -0700, Ivan Kohler wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 09:52:24PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 07:58:46PM -0700, Ivan Kohler wrote:
> > * Revert to upstream 2.4.1 to get this compiled & working against lenny
> > libxcrypt (closes: Bug#487487).
> > Why in the world, with that changelog entry, did the build-deps get changed
> > to point to a sid-only version of libxcrypt in the first place?
> They weren't. The build-deps were changed to point to they previous
> version of libxcrypt, which is in *lenny*. They were changed not "just
> because", but because the newer version isn't working, and there is
> little chance of getting it working soon.
Ok; apparently I misread the control file.
Build-Depends: [...] libxcrypt-dev (>= 2.4), libxcrypt-dev (< 3.0)
Apparently, my question was meant to be: why was a package uploaded to
unstable that build-depends on a version of libxcrypt that's only in
testing (since libxcrypt-dev 3.0-2 was uploaded over a month before your
libpam-unix2 upload)? I'm not seeing how you expected this to work, so I'm
not sure what to recommend as a way out of this mess.
> > Also, why do you propose to address this by adding an epoch to a library
> > (which is never good),
> Precisely why I asked for advice before doing anything... it did sound
> like there might be a better way..
> > instead of fixing the libxcrypt build problem in
> > unstable and getting that unblocked?
> Perhaps I was unclear.
> Take a look at the bug report, please.
> To fix the libxcrypt build problem in unstable, I'll need to revert to
> the previous version.
Why can't you *fix* the bug? It's a trivial build failure to fix - just
stop building with -Werror.
> 3.0 currently in unstable is unsuitable for release.
For reasons other than the build failure? That is certainly not evident
from the BTS. If the build failure is the only reason, I don't see why you
wouldn't just fix it. If there are other reasons, they should be documented
in the BTS.
> How do you suggest I revert to libxcrypt 2.4 to fix the build problems
> in unstable *without* using a library epoch?
I don't.
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