Re: m68k debian sid dist-upgrade and mawk

Hello,

On Sat, 2026-08-15 at 00:25 +0000, Stan Johnson wrote:
> FYI if anyone is noticing that mawk stopped working on m68k systems 
> running Debian SID.
> 
> During an "apt-get dist-upgrade" on an m68k system (running as a -virt 
> system in QEMU), the upgrade hung while processing a PERL package (I can 
> restore from backups and run the dist-upgrade again if anyone would like 
> to see all of the installation messages).

It's not a bug in mawk but in glibc [1][2] and has already been fixed [3].

It's also been fixed in unstable [4], but the package has not been pushed
out yet. But you can just install a fixed package from unreleased in the
mean time:

$ echo "deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ unreleased main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
$ apt update
$ apt install libc6 -t=unreleased

Adrian

> [1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34509
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1144250
> [3] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=bb213471bedc177b8efd3178584137fb81cc976a
> [4] https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc/-/commit/df4ca7ad6c81feff9c8751c73653a9fbc4031173

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