Re: Please unblock dietlibc-0.31-1.1

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Micah Anderson wrote:
>  
> Hello,
> 
> Due to namespace virtualization changes in the newer kernels that are
> now in Lenny, there were changes that were made to util-vserver to
> support the new mechanisms for unmounting and cleanup in guests (because
> the chroot barrier is being faded out in favor of the new namespace and
> pivot_root). 
> 
> These were fixed in the version of util-vserver that has a hint to
> transition into lenny (-5), but it is not transitioning due to a build
> failure on alpha and ia64. This is a build-regression for util-vserver,
> which used to build on these architectures, but refuses now. Because of
> these two architectures not building, its holding back the important
> transition of util-vserver to Lenny.
> 
> Fortunately, the fix to dietlibc is relatively easy, I've got a patch
> and tested it on all the different architectures, and have NMU'd (with
> the maintainer, Gerrit Pape's approval), but it needs to be let into
> Lenny so util-vserver can build against it.
> 
> So, if you wouldn't mind making a hint for 0.31-1.1 of dietlibc to
> transition into Lenny, the diff is quite small, and is below:

unblocked

Cheers

Luk