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?