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Bug#1065208: gcl: recent libc6-dev change causes XDR support to be dropped

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Source: gcl
Version: 2.6.14-6
Severity: serious
User: debian-glibc@lists.debian.org
Usertags: libtirpc-dev

Dear maintainer,

Starting with glibc 2.31, support for NIS (libnsl library) has been
moved to a separate libnsl2 package. In order to allow a smooth
transition, a libnsl-dev, which depends on libtirpc-dev, has been added
to the libc6-dev package.

The libnsl-dev dependency has been temporarily dropped in the 2.37-15.1
NMU, as part of the 64-bit time_t transition. This causes gcl to disable
the XDR support. Not fully sure what are the consequences, but it seems
at least axiom requires XDR support.

Therefore please either:
- Add libnsl-dev as build dependency
- Disable XDR support explicitly with --disable-xdr so that this feature
  does not depend on the packages installed on the system.

The glibc change will likely be reverted in the short term, but given
its a change we want to do for Trixie, this will only lower the severity
of the bug.

Regards
Aurelien

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Bug#1065208: gcl: recent libc6-dev change causes XDR support to be dropped Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> - 2024-03-01 22:20 +0100
  Bug#1065208: gcl: recent libc6-dev change causes XDR support to be dropped Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> - 2024-03-01 23:30 +0100

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