First of all, big, LARGE Thank you Loïc, for the great work you've done about this bug.
Somehow I haven't received earlier messages for #621137 even when I'm subscribed, or else I'd reply sooner. I wanted to get rid of that patch completely, together with CONFIG_STANDALONE_SHELL busybox config option (which makes its shell to search for commands internally first and in $PATH second), but unfortunately initramfs-tools relies on this hack still (I submitted a patch for that to initramfs- tools a while back) hence it stays for now. I very much hope this all will be sorted out for good for wheezy, whithout applets-fallback.patch and other hackery. But so far, since the thing is still needed, and since gcc isn't yet in good state, your patch is necessary, and it looks good too - excellent spot. This code (in applets- fallback.patch) has bit-rotted for a bit. Quite interesting effect on gcc too ;) 08.04.2011 04:06, Loïc Minier wrote: [] > Ah I should have submitted the changes in a branch of busybox.git; > didn't spot the git repo -- my bad. > > Indeed the layout isn't too conventional: no pristine-tar branch, no > upstream files in the repo, no upstream branch with e.g. imported > tarballs or upstream history. Putting busybox_1.18.4-1.dsc from the Yes the proper conversion into gbp hasn't been done in the git.debian.org busybox repository, -- only debian branch is there, no upstream etc. The reason - in addition to the usual "not yet done" - is actually a bit deeper - I wanted to clone upstream git repository into debian busybox.git, instead of using git-import-orig, which is, at my opinion, a step backwards compared with how git can work. But I can't figure out how to have a "tree" of upstreams, since upstream itself has not just single branch but many stable subbranches which gbo does not handle well either. So the conversion process stalled somewhat, I did lots of experiments locally but am not satisfied with results. So, thank you again, thank you very much for your great work with all this stuff - both the original problem and packaging issues. Busybox needs quite some love ;) /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
