[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#399608: fixed in sysvinit 2.88dsf-59.1

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se> wrote:
> Hello Adrian!
>
> Thanks for raising awareness about this issue. If there's anything
> I can do to help please tell me. That the new util-linux version hasn't
> been built yet sounds like it can't be avoided as it was just uploaded
> and unfortunately the sysvinit and util-linux update is a lockstep
> upgrade where both change at the same time as things are moved between
> the packages. There's no intermediate step possible, because the
> moved binaries always needs to be available at all times and thus
> have tight dependencies in both directions. Not sure how dependencies
> affects the build of these packages though.... They should both be
> able to build on systems with older versions of the packages installed
> and build independently.

 that sounds like the kind of thing that would cause nightmare
circular build dependencies for anyone porting to a new architecture
[which i'm considering doing: mvp from icubecorp].

 would that be correct - that if there *is* no "older version" it
would now be impossible to build both [or either] of the packages - or
am i mistaken?

 if it is correct, do you happen to know if they would cross-build, at all?

 l.