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Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock
Please unblock package grub. OK, so #769349 was tagged jessie-ignore,
but it was still a bit of a WTF moment for me to realise that there was
still static linking going on here, and it doesn't appear to have been
necessary for years.
diff -u grub-0.97/debian/changelog grub-0.97/debian/changelog
--- grub-0.97/debian/changelog
+++ grub-0.97/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+grub (0.97-70) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * Stop linking statically on amd64, which was a holdover from a long time
+ ago when we couldn't just depend on biarch libraries (closes: #769349).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:57:54 +0000
+
grub (0.97-69) unstable; urgency=medium
* Revert the parts of the CVS sync in 0.97-8 that introduced the GNU FDL,
diff -u grub-0.97/debian/rules grub-0.97/debian/rules
--- grub-0.97/debian/rules
+++ grub-0.97/debian/rules
@@ -50,10 +50,6 @@
filesystems=e2fs ffs minix
endif
-ifeq ($(DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU),x86_64)
- LDFLAGS=-static
-endif
-
include /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make
configure: configure-stamp
unblock grub/0.97-70
Thanks,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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On 2014-11-19 09:48, Colin Watson wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
>
> Please unblock package grub. OK, so #769349 was tagged jessie-ignore,
> but it was still a bit of a WTF moment for me to realise that there was
> still static linking going on here, and it doesn't appear to have been
> necessary for years.
>
> [...]
Unblocked, thanks.
~Niels
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