klibc does not support reboot arguments

[Alfonso Sanchez-Beato]

... so we cannot do things like "reboot recovery" in devices that follow the Android partitions conventions.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "add-reboot-argument-support.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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[Alfonso Sanchez-Beato (alfonsosanchezbeato)]

Add a slightly modified version of the patch.

[Alfonso Sanchez-Beato (alfonsosanchezbeato)]

Reported to debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=863761

[Alfonso Sanchez-Beato (alfonsosanchezbeato)]

It looks like both upstream and debian are not being responsive, looks like klibc has no maintainer in neither of those. Should we add this patch to the Ubuntu package?

[Alfonso Sanchez-Beato (alfonsosanchezbeato)]

The patch has been included in Debian klibc package 2.0.4-12:

http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/k/klibc/klibc_2.0.4-12_changelog

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package klibc - 2.0.5-2

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klibc (2.0.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Drop redundant patch "Include the multiarch include directory in klcc's
    path"
  * Drop "Fix klibc Debian specific build trouble" and introduce links in
    debian/rules
  * Fix up debug symbol support:
    - Use -Ttext-segment to link shared library on all arches (Closes: #919855)
    - Drop "kbuild: Enable build IDs"
    - Kbuild: Add option to install unstripped binaries
    - Kbuild: Enable full debug information
    - Set CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO instead of overriding STRIP

 -- Ben Hutchings <email address hidden> Sun, 20 Jan 2019 22:49:25 +0000