Bug#849923: openssh-server: no login possible after upgrade on x32
On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 05:23:21PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2017-01-03 15:30 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 03:51:03PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> >> Helmut Grohne suggests to always pass both, even if equal. Probably
> >> to eliminate an entire error class, even if not necessary. *shrug*
> >> If this works, all the better.
> >
> > /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz claims that it causes
> > modern autoconf to switch to cross-compiling mode even if the values are
> > equal (though I haven't tracked down the exact details of this).
>
> That's not quite correct, but many people have been wondering about it.
> You can see my own ramblings in #682780[1], on the upstream mailing I
> received a reply stating that cross-compiling mode is not to be entered
> in this case[2].
Thanks for the clarification! I'm still happy to leave this up to
debhelper rather than specifically overriding it in individual packages,
I think.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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