Investigation of the bug

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 11:18:53AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote:

> Sorry to have been lingering on this bug: on Igloo's buildd report I saw
> that some of the packages were still rebuilding and I thought it was
> just a matter of waiting.

> Today I investigated a bit more.  The problem is indeed connected to the
> C++ allocator thing, and the recompile was incomplete because debtags
> links statically with some libraries, and it's nonobvious to find the
> dependencies.  Luckily, thanks to a suggestion of Jonas Smedegaard at
> Debconf4, I use dh_buildinfo.

> It turned out that the libtagcoll-dev is still built with libstdc++6
> 4.0.2-3.  It in turn gets statically linked into libapt-front-dev, which
> in turn gets statically linked into debtags.

> So, it seems that there are some recompiles to be triggered:

> Step 1: libtagcoll-dev

> Step 2: tagcoll, tagcolledit, libapt-front-dev
>         (since they statically link libtagcoll-dev)

> Step 3: debtags, debtags-edit, packagesearch
>         (since they statically link libapt-front-dev)

Could you perform these steps locally on your system and confirm that it
does correct the failure, before we commit buildd time on all archs to
rebuilding these?

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon at debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/
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