Bug#697026: swami: please re-upload built against GLib 2.32

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Sun Dec 30 21:58:40 UTC 2012


Source: swami
Version: 2.0.0+svn389-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Bug #694525
Control: block 694525 by -1

src:swami was last built against GLib 2.30, and contains public
structs (SwamiLock and derived structs) which embed a GStaticMutex,
GStaticRecMutex or GStaticRWLock.

On most 32-bit platforms (notably armel, armhf, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390
and sparc), the size of GStaticMutex etc. changed between GLib 2.30 and 2.32;
this resulted in bugs like #683012. Because that was a while ago, upstream
recommend rebuilding everything that's affected against the new GLib and
carrying on with the "new" ABI.

Because swami has Multi-Arch: same packages, a binNMU is undesirable,
so it would be better to make a sourceful upload as a pseudo-binNMU.

See #694525 for further discussion.

Regards,
    Simon



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