Re: Bug#709947: closed by tytso@mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o) (Bug#708307: fixed in e2fsprogs 1.42.8-1)

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> We have a minor problem with uploading a fix.  E2fsprogs currently
> FTBFS on stable, due to bug #707996, whose root cause is #708061.  
>
> Personally, I blame glibc (#708061) for once again making a
> library-visible API change.  (If they didn't want programs to use
> __secure_getenv, they shouldn't have made it visible.)

Odd --- wouldn't building e2fsprogs in a wheezy chroot avoid trouble,
since libc in wheezy doesn't have that bug?

Thanks,
Jonathan