On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 09:43:13PM -0300, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 08:25:18PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > > > > compatibility. I read the whole thread on linux-mips but i didnt get the point > > > > why this has to happen - If we are repairing a real bug for it. > > > > > > > > Could someone please elaborate on whats going on as i feel i missed ~200 mails > > > > discussion and i dont want to purge the whole debian archive until i know > > > > what for we actually drop the compatibility. > > > > > > We don't. > > > > Could you explain a bit more - I'd like to understand the whole issue. > > The whole point was to switch from our IRIX ELF flavoured binaries to > standard ABI ELF. These two variants are close but not identical which > for example made modutils missbehave. What is the current status on this? The patches for the tools are already integrated in their cvs trees (right?). But I don't think everybody was happy with this in the end, aspecially the people wearing debian hats. Is anybody working on a solution, or are we waiting for the debian people to rebuild all the packages? Tom
