On Tue, 2017-06-06 at 08:26 +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Ben Hutchings wrote... > > > radvd's autoconf test for <linux/if.h> has probably failed at least > > since Linux 2.6.32 when I made sure the kernel headers would never > > define struct sockaddr for userland: > > <https://git.kernel.org/linus/9c501935a3cdcf6b1d35aaee3aa11c7a7051a305> > > > > But the conflict between <linux/if_arp.h> and <net/if_arp.h> is far > > older than that, so if the test ever passed it should have resulted in > > this build failure. I think that's a clear bug in radvd. It should > > use either one or the other, and I think the sensible thing is to use > > <net/if_arp.h> as it has been doing up until now. > > Certainly I'm not going to advocate radvd's build system - my only > concern is your change will break more packages out there, mere ten days > prior to the scheduled release. > > So to me it seems wiser to revert the changes to linux-libc-dev for > stretch. Do we still have time to do that? > Else, someone(tm) would have to test-rebuild all the packages > that build-depend on linux-libc-dev to check for damage, and provide > help how to deal with something that technically is a library > transition. No it's not. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Every program is either trivial or else contains at least one bug
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