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

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 2 July 2013 10:56, Steve M. Robbins <steve at sumost.ca> wrote:
> 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 did not have a specific directive in mind.  I was forwarding the
severity of the blocked bug.  Please consider the severity as you
like.

> 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.
>

Appreciated.  Libraries should not be generating avoidable compiler warnings.

Anyway, fixing in boost is certainly better than applying the
workaround in multiple packages.  Small patch is a plus.

> 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
>