Package: libboost-wave-dev Severity: wishlist Dear Debian Boost Team,
First, I would like to thank you for your hard work and quality packages. I am the sponsored maintainer of the vera++ package. This package has a dependency over libboost-wave. It has been decided upstream to recompile boost wave with vera++ in order to activate the BOOST_WAVE_SUPPORT_MS_EXTENSIONS cxx flag so vera++ would be able to parse specific windows identifiers (__stdcall, __declspec, …). See issue #58¹. It is indeed nice for vera++ to be able to parse those identifiers correctly so a Debian server checking source files from windows developers would correctly report errors related to these tokens. For instance, there are users of vera++ who runs a svn hook which refuses commits of source files with bad coding style. Could it be possible to add the BOOST_WAVE_SUPPORT_MS_EXTENSIONS=1 flag for the compilation of boost wave, please? If not can you please explain why? I have checked the BTS if any demands regarding the BOOST_WAVE_SUPPORT_MS_EXTENSIONS compilation flag for boost wave have been asked in the past and could not find anything. Is there anything in Debian which could prevent the activation of this flag (apart from we never had the need before)? It would be a pity for Debian to ship a degraded version of vera++. Moreover, I think it would not be in accordance to the policy for my package to build its own boost-wave library. In case you cannot add the previously mentionned flag, what would be the best practice here? Thanks in advance for your time. Best regards, -- Vincent Hobeïka -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
