Adam Conrad <adcon...@debian.org> wrote: > It's arguably a toolchain deficiency on all arches that the ELF headers > are incomplete when linking with nostdlib, what makes this special on > armhf is that we later rely on those headers being in place. Given that > this has bitten us exactly nowhere in the entire archive except for ICU, > however, I can't see that this is a particularly common use-case. > > RedHat/Fedora and Ubuntu[1] all just link ICU with libc6 to avoid > annoyance from ELF-lint checkers, prelinking, and in the Ubuntu case, > armhf. There's no real argument against it, especially in the Debian > package case, since libicu depends on libc6 anyway, and the only way > that people load libicudata is via other libicu* consumers, which all > link with libc6, so libc6 is already both on-disk and in-memory anyway > > . . .
You've convinced me. This is not the first time it's caused a problem. I'll upload momentarily. > I'll happily NMU so you can wash you hand of the whole thing, if you > prefer. :P I appreciate the offer, and I almost took you up on it, but I'll just squeeze it in. :-) Anyway, I'll want to remove the lintian override for this issue. Stand by...you should see the upload within an hour. --Jay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
