Comment 23 for bug 19828

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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 00:30:01 -0700
From: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
To: Nathan Scott <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#312936: Programmes linked against libacl1 segfault in libacl1 code.

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On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:29:54PM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:36:18PM +0100, Jonathan David Amery wrote:
> > ...
> > Recompiling libacl1 (itself an awkward task since the package itself=20
> > segfaults in the middle when it is doing something to the postinst scri=
pt)
> > and installing the recompiled version fixes the problem.

> Given this statement, and the various others that suggest this may
> alternatively be a kernel ABI issue, I have no reason to believe
> theres actually anything wrong in the libacl package itself, nor
> is there likely to any workaround that could be put into libacl.

> As such, this bug is languishing assigned to libacl -- does anyone
> have any suggestions as to where/how further progress could be made
> on this bug? Is there a generic arm-port pseudo-package I could
> reassign to? Should I just close it stating a different compiler
> has resolved this (what compiler version was used above, Jonathan?)?

> Any advice/suggestions, anyone?

If it *is* a kernel ABI issue, it would be appropriate for the current
libacl1 package in sarge to include a preinst check for the running
kernel version to avoid installing a known-broken combination. Please
see the libc6 preinst for an example of this.

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