On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 22:05:00 +0000 (UTC) Thorsten Glaser <t...@mirbsd.de> wrote: > Source: klibc > Version: 2.0.4-5 > Severity: serious > Justification: makes upgrading to stretch with kernel from jessie impossible > > I just saw this: > > klibc (2.0.4-5) unstable; urgency=medium > . > * syscalls: Use direct socket syscalls on i386 (Closes: 809423). > This requires Linux 4.3. > > You cannot do this, this breaks installing stretch with the > kernel from jessie, which is normally a supported scenario. > > This is especially grave as this can affect shells (lksh and > mksh-static, for example).
While I generally consider this a requirement, it is not something that klibc upstream cares about so I thought it wasn't worth making the effort to maintain that backward compatibility here. Still, I think there's another way to fix the original bug that doesn't require a new kernel. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest.
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