Bug#710894: pu: package gnome-settings-daemon/3.4.2+git20121218.7c1322-3

[Xiyue Deng]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: pu

(please explain the reason for this update here)

Hi stable release managers,

I'm here proposing a stable update for gnome-settings-daemon to fix
#629351[1]. The bug causes this package to segfault on mipsel, and even
causes gdm3 to display "Oh no! Something has gone wrong" screen, which
basically makes gdm3 and GNOME desktop unusable.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/629351

The way to fix this is to disable "-Wl,-z,defs" flags to ld. The same
approach has already been applied on ia64. The proposed patch is
attached.

Admittedly, the real problem may lie in toolchain support, and I have
already CCed binutils maintainer in original bug report[1]. However,
given the workaround has already been applied on other architecture, the
patch is IMHO more convenient for stable release.

Please review and comment. Also put Debian GNOME packaging team in CC so
once acked they can help preparing the upload.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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