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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
Cc: Brett Gilio <brettg@gnu.org>, 38803@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#38803] [PATCH] gnu: elfutils: Update to 0.178
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:36:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftfo3q2f.fsf@devup.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58f284a926a93f9e079075ed0f7020ef63a03859.camel@klomp.org>

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Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> writes:

>> For the 0.178 update, perhaps we can add the new version as a separate
>> variable until we figure out how to isolate libelf.so?  That can be done
>> on the 'master' branch as long as we don't change the current 'elfutils'
>> package.
>
> I am not sure I completely understand your proposal. When you say
> 'separate variable', Do you mean we would (define-public elfutils-0.178 
> ...)?

Yes.  See e.g 'gdb/next' or 'help2man/latest' for some examples of
inheritance.

> And changing the default libelf implementation should be a separate bug
> I assume.

Indeed.  I suggest we defer that until we have 0.178+ in properly.

> BTW. Upstream is now debating some of the dependencies for other
> distros that have bootstrapping requirements too: 
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25509

Good to know we're not alone!

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-06 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-30  1:41 [bug#38803] [PATCH] gnu: elfutils: Update to 0.178 Mark Wielaard
2019-12-30  1:44 ` Brett Gilio
2019-12-30  2:04   ` Mark Wielaard
2020-01-12 20:39 ` Mark Wielaard
2020-01-12 20:54   ` Marius Bakke
2020-01-13  0:03     ` Mark Wielaard
2020-01-13 22:26       ` Marius Bakke
2020-01-31 12:43         ` Mark Wielaard
2020-01-31 15:49           ` Marius Bakke
2020-01-31 16:55             ` Mark Wielaard
2020-02-05 20:41               ` Marius Bakke
2020-02-06 11:04                 ` Mark Wielaard
2020-02-06 11:36                   ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2020-02-06 13:23                   ` Mark Wielaard
2020-02-06 14:31                     ` Marius Bakke
2023-09-02 18:39 ` Vagrant Cascadian

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