From: Scott James Remnant Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure: Disable libblkid by default Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:59:21 +0100 Message-ID: <1248015561.4524.26.camel@quest> References: <20090717143637.GM8508@mit.edu> <1247842479.4524.11.camel@quest> <20090717150207.GA29705@mit.edu> <1247843694.4524.13.camel@quest> <20090719115617.GF2416@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-PX2tB/wPC+Uo9Y+CZyov" Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Received: from zelda.netsplit.com ([87.194.19.211]:60387 "EHLO zelda.netsplit.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754472AbZGSO7K (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:59:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090719115617.GF2416@mit.edu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-PX2tB/wPC+Uo9Y+CZyov Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 07:56 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > > I've done the packaging for him, it's just waiting on him to get ba= ck > > > > home to sponsor the uploads. > > >=20 > > > Are the .deb packages somewhere where I can examine them? > > >=20 > > Yes, they're in Ubuntu. >=20 > I just took a quick look at them, and it appears that they are missing > the libblkid1-dbg, libuuid1-dbg, and uuid-runtime-dbg packages. >=20 We auto-generate debug packages for all binaries in Ubuntu, extracted from the compiler, e.g.: http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/pool/main/u/util-linux/libblkid1-dbgsym_2.16-1ubunt= u1_i386.ddeb Since I'm not a Debian maintainer, I don't know how such things are done in Debian so left this for you and/or Lamont to fill in. > Also, apparently no once noticed until now, but there's a bug in the > util-linux-ng's uuid.sym file. The uuid_pack and uuid_unpack symbols > are missing, because someone forgot to include them in the uuid.sym > file. The debian symbol generation system which I see you carefully > moved over detected the problem, but you apparently didn't take a > close enough look at its output to detect the warning messages. >=20 I just copied the symbols file over and applied the update your output said. > BTW, **why** is util-linux-ng gratuitously introducing backwards > incompatibility such that packages built with util-linux-ng won't work > with the older shared libraries? There's no reason to do this. >=20 > There is a hint in the (obsolete) comments in uuid.sym that suggests a > reason why, but it's not justified for libuuid: >=20 You'd have to ask Karel about that one. However I think now it's happened, we shouldn't back it out again. Scott --=20 Scott James Remnant scott@ubuntu.com --=-PX2tB/wPC+Uo9Y+CZyov Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkpjNMkACgkQSnQiFMl4yK7s8ACdFF52n1ywP+phDbjKzLxO3cZa qS0AnAzJj88S2RCcgrUDUtaCHTh46HlE =Przv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-PX2tB/wPC+Uo9Y+CZyov--