Not to steal the V-ger's thunder, but I think I have another puzzler.
Today's update (sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get dist-upgrade) brings a new linux-image to my machine, which I was excited to see. And on accepting the update, my friend apt-listbugs tells me there is a serious bug of gcc. A tad wee bit of digging shows a dependency chain between gcc and the linux image. And, I thought they figured critical stuff like this out before releasing a new linux image? Is that right?
Relevant codez follow for your discussion or my embarrassment:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gcc-4.9 irqbalance libasan1 libc-dev-bin libc6-dev libcilkrts5 libgcc-4.9-dev liblsan0 libubsan0
linux-compiler-gcc-4.9-x86 linux-headers-4.0.0-1-amd64 linux-headers-4.0.0-1-common linux-image-4.0.0-1-amd64
linux-kbuild-4.0 linux-libc-dev manpages-dev
The following packages have been kept back:
libgnutls-deb0-28 libgnutls-openssl27 openssl rkhunter
The following packages will be upgraded:
dbus dbus-x11 firmware-iwlwifi firmware-linux firmware-linux-nonfree geoip-database libdbus-1-3 libegl1-mesa libgbm1
libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libnet-ssleay-perl libsqlite3-0
libwayland-egl1-mesa libx11-protocol-perl libxatracker2 linux-headers-amd64 linux-image-amd64 rsyslog spacefm
spacefm-common
24 upgraded, 16 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/71.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 247 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
serious bugs of gcc-4.9 (→ 4.9.2-16) <Outstanding>
b1 - #785066 - -m32 no longer supported on ppc64el; cannot build a kernel
Summary:
gcc-4.9(1 bug)
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...] n
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****** Exiting with an error in order to stop the installation. ******
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E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt returned an error code (10)
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt
100 superwow@grmldeb ~ % apt-cache depends linux-compiler-gcc-4.9-x86 :( v32%
linux-compiler-gcc-4.9-x86
Depends: gcc-4.9
superwow@grmldeb ~ % apt-cache rdepends linux-compiler-gcc-4.9-x86 v32%
linux-compiler-gcc-4.9-x86
Reverse Depends:
linux-headers-4.0.0-1-amd64
Is this a gordian knot? Or just business as usual for a major Sid upgrade?
W O W! Does this mean the kbuild for the 4.0 Kernel is finally hitting? From the looks of things, the bug mentions the ppc (Mac platform) and shouldn't affect you unless you are indeed running the ppc platform architecture. To me it simply looks as if it is finally updating the Kernel to the latest 'sid' levels. This is good news if you ask me. Several of us have built/compiled 4.0.* + with great results. Just make sure you have a solid backup, and I'd go ahead and go for it. But hey I like cliff diving also, so take it all with a grain of salt. I'd hate you to smoke your machine cause of something I told you to do...
The beauty is with the last available ISO's that you can still download you should be able to have a system back up and running in no time whatsoever! Keep us informed please!