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Re: <linux/if.h> and <net/if.h> conflict needs to be resolved for backports?

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On Sat, 2017-06-03 at 08:08 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> On 06/02/17 11:16, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-06-01 at 10:37 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> > > 
> > > Workaround is to avoid the backports package, but I wonder if it
> > > would
> > > be possible to fix this? How comes that the fix for #822396
> > > doesn't
> > > work for Jessie?
> > 
> > I think it depends on changes to the glibc headers.
> > 
> 
> <rhetorical>
> Shouldn't debian/control mention this dependency?
> </rhetorical>
>
> Of course I understand that there is no backport of glibc. AFAICS
> the conflict in Jessie has been introduced by the backports kernel,
> ignoring old glibc. This is even more painful, since 4.9.x is
> supposed to be a LTS kernel.
> 
> IMU <linux/if.h> should either look at the glibc version number,
> or avoid the double definitions using "#ifndef".
> 
> What would you suggest?

I would suggest not using linux-libc-dev from jessie-backports.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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<linux/if.h> and <net/if.h> conflict needs to be resolved for  backports? Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.de> - 2017-06-01 10:50 +0200
  Re: <linux/if.h> and <net/if.h> conflict needs to be resolved for  backports? Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-06-02 11:20 +0200
    Re: <linux/if.h> and <net/if.h> conflict needs to be resolved for  backports? Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.de> - 2017-06-03 08:10 +0200
      Re: <linux/if.h> and <net/if.h> conflict needs to be resolved for  backports? Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-06-03 16:10 +0200
        Re: <linux/if.h> and <net/if.h> conflict needs to be resolved for  backports? Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.de> - 2017-06-05 11:50 +0200

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