Re: Bug#1115582: bootterm package fails on ppc64le

On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 03:45:42PM +0530, tshah wrote:
>  I've looked into it further and confirmed thatt he support for
> arbitrary baud rates via <termios.h> was introduced in *glibc 2.42*.

Ah, you're right of course! It's 2.42, not 2.41. Thank you for the
additional research & correction!

> However, most current Debian environments (including stable and
> testing) are still using glibc versions *< *2.42, so the new support
> is not yet available there.
> 
> Given this, we’d still need to rely on the <termbits.h>.  But once
> Debian moves to glibc 2.42, we can definitely consider simplifying the
> code by switching to the standard <termios.h> API conditionally.

stable is not relevant here, as any fix to this bug is going to be
targeting unstable/testing. A missing architecture is not enough grounds
for a stable update, especially in such a minor package.

With regards to unstable, you're correct that 2.42 is not available
there yet. It is in experimental, though, and given it's already a
released version, I'd expect it to reach unstable soon. So I think it's
meaningful to take that into account for any suggested fix here.

Note, however, that I have not verified whether that glibc change makes
a difference to this bug or not; this is just speculation on my end,
based on a vague memory of the issue at hand, and a drive-by read of
glibc's release notes.

Regards,
Faidon