oprofile should not link libbfd dynamically, again [oprofile needs rebuilding against binutils 2.20.51.20100710]

  libopagent1: Depends: binutils (< 2.20.51.20100618) but 2.20.51.20100710-1ubuntu2 is installed.
  oprofile: Depends: binutils (< 2.20.51.20100618) but 2.20.51.20100710-1ubuntu2 is installed.

Same bug, newer version--oprofile needs to get rebuilt again.

It needs to be rebuilt yet again for binutils 2.20.51.20100908-0ubuntu1

Maybe in the future the developers can link oprofile to binutils since it seems it needs to rebuilt any time binutils is upated

KyL416: No, Debian packages cannot be dynamically linked with binutils:

Package: binutils-dev
Description: The GNU binary utilities (BFD development files)
 This package includes header files and static libraries necessary to build
 programs which use the GNU BFD library, which is part of binutils. Note that
 building Debian packages which depend on the shared libbfd is Not Allowed.

See also bug 426614.

This makes oprofile link statically against libbfd, again, by merging in the Debian NMU that did the same thing:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=537744
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573905
This will make future rebuilds against new binutils unnecessary for good.

I built this in my PPA <https://launchpad.net/~anders-kaseorg/+archive/ppa>, checked that it no longer depends a specific version of binutils, and successfully tested it with the instructions at <http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/OProfile>.

Bug auto-closing is currently broken:

 oprofile (0.9.6-1.1ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low
 .
   * Merge from debian unstable. Remaining changes:
     - Split out libopagent1 runtime library.
     - debian/oprofile.postinst: Really really make it work this time by
       adding the oprofile:oprofile system user and group as required for
       JIT support (see README_PACKAGERS)
     - Add documentation about vmlinux / linux-image-debug.ddeb.
     - debian/patches/arm-factor-out-armv7-common-architectural-events,
       debian/patches/arm-correct-usage-of-core-technology-for-v7-and-mpcore,
       debian/patches/arm-add-support-for-cortex-a9-events:
       ARMv7 cleanup and Cortex-A9 support, backported from
       http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.oprofile/8563.
   * Statically link libbfd. (LP: #588033)
 .
 oprofile (0.9.6-1.1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Add patch by Yukiharu YABUKI to staticaly link against libbfd
    (Closes: #537744, #573905)