Bug#438577: boinc-client: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu not found error message returns

[Graham Cobb]

Package: boinc-client
Version: 5.10.8-1
Severity: important

Just upgraded my amd64 system running lenny.  I noted that the boinc-client 
changelog said that i686-pc-linux-gnu is now automatically used as an 
alternative platform name and so the previous mechanisms for pretending
to be a x86_64-pc-linux-gnu platform have been removed.

However, it doesn't work.  climateprediction.net is refusing to send me any
tasks with message from server: platform 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' not found.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE at euro, LC_CTYPE=en_IE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_IE at euro)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages boinc-client depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.104            add and remove users and groups
ii  ca-certificates         20070303         Common CA Certificates PEM files
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.14           Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                   2.6-2            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3                7.16.4-2         Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.2-20070712-1 GCC support library
ii  libidn11                0.6.5-1          GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libkrb53                1.6.dfsg.1-6     MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8             0.9.8e-5+b1      SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6              4.2-20070712-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  lsb-base                3.1-24           Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  python                  2.4.4-6          An interactive high-level object-o
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime

boinc-client recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  boinc-client/remove_boinc_dir: false