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Re: gdb dropped from ia64

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John Paul Adrian Glaubitz

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Dec 22, 2022, 3:40:03 AM12/22/22
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Hi Pedro!

On 12/22/22 08:29, Pedro Miguel Justo wrote:
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> With the latest turn of the crank we just lost gdb. It was flagged as a broken packaged and removed.
>
> The broken dependency is:
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> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> libdebuginfod1 : Depends: libdebuginfod-common (>= 0.188-2) but 0.188-1 is to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

gdb didn't drop ia64 support, you just ran into this problem:

> https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html

Adrian

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John Paul Adrian Glaubitz

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Dec 23, 2022, 3:00:04 PM12/23/22
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Hi Pedro!

On 12/23/22 18:50, Pedro Miguel Justo wrote:
> Small update on gdb itself:
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> Today gdb installs fine again. I guess the dependent package did complete building.
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> But installing doesn’t mean it works. It currently doesn’t. Here is the output of a simple session: [1]
> (...)

gdb currently doesn't really work on ia64. There are some kernel bugs that need to be fixed
first. Gentoo developer Sergei Trofimovich planned to address these issues, but I don't know
what the current status is.
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