Debian Bug report logs - #880938
base-installer: must define _GNU_SOURCE for vasprintf in pkgdetails.c

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Package: base-installer; Maintainer for base-installer is Debian Install System Team <[email protected]>;

Reported by: Shawn Landden <[email protected]>

Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 20:39:02 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version base-installer/1.171

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From: Shawn Landden <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: base-installer: must define _GNU_SOURCE for vasprintf in pkgdetails.c
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2017 12:34:56 -0800
Package: base-installer
Version: 1.171
Severity: important

in order to compile pkgdetails.c for debootstrap I had to add
#define _GNU_SOURCE

for vasprintf

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, arm64, armhf

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-rc7-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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