[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#710211: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

[Steve M. Robbins]

Hi Daniel,

I'd like some more information regarding these two bugs, where Boost
has defined but not used a local typedef.

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 09:24:20AM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> severity 710210 serious
> severity 710211 serious

So a "serious" bug is defined as: a severe violation of Debian policy
(roughly, it violates a "must" or "required" directive), or, in the
package maintainer's or release manager's opinion, makes the package
unsuitable for release.

I looked through policy in vain for an applicable directive.  Did you
have one in mind?  If not, what is your rationale for this severity?

I can guess you are concerned that this compiler warning causes a
build failure for other packages that treat errors as warnings.  I
agree this is a nuisance and will endeavour to fix the issue.  

However, in general I cannot agree that this alone makes it "serious".
The build failure is caused by the package using -Werror.  An easy
workaround is to add -Wno-unused-local-typedef for those packages
using Boost and -Werror.

Regards,
-Steve

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