[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#827193: what's the point of checking the minor version?

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hi Adam and Mateusz,

>What's the point of checking minor versions on gcc 5 and 6?  This isn't done
>on earlier versions -- after the numbering was flattened, version 5 is
>equivalent to 4.8 or 4.9.

I got FTBFS after gcc bumps, or something that broke.
Doing this is "safer", even if probably not completely needed.

>Thus, I understand refusing to build with an untested major version, but

>FTBFSing on every point release is a bad idea.

I prefer to stick to what upstream suggests/tests, specially when I have
to deal with such a complicate package.

I can upload a fix such as this one in a few seconds, so there is no
big issue here
(I would have uploaded it before, but I'm trying to fix an issue with
vesa and guest additions).


BTW I already sent the patch upstream some days ago
https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/2016-June/013884.html

cheers,

G.