Package: binutils Version: 2.21.0.20110327-2 Severity: normal GNU as recently introduced a new check for the .size directive, which has caught some fairly widespread errors (often caused by typos). However, this check results in errors, rather than warnings, and since the check has never existed before and the previous behavior simply ignored the incorrect directive, this has broken the builds of many different pieces of software. In particular, breaks compilation of all but the most recent Linux kernels, and some code generated by the current version of ghc, just to mention two I've run into personally.
As an entirely new check, this needs to remain a warning, with the option of making it an error on request. Issuing an error by default results in widespread breakage. See http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.binutils/52601 for some background. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
