Hi Axel, On 2022-05-17 14:26:51 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Shouldn't Debian use -Wno-error=deprecated-declarations to ignore > > the use of deprecated functions? > > No, in contrary. These kind of problems only appear in Debian Unstable > which is our development branch. And there we should see such issues > rather early than late.
Upstream developers could (should) test their software on a machine with recent libraries (such as Debian/unstable), so that they would see the issue without needing downstream to tell them. Or Debian should have a specific build system (with options like -Werror=deprecated-declarations for any package) just for testing and reporting bugs to upstream, but which would not affect the build of packages for Debian/unstable. The problem is that it can take months before upstream provides updated code, while in general, deprecated functions are not removed before several years (giving the time to developers to notice them even on platforms with a stable OS release). Of course, this is completely different if the maintainer or some other Debian developer is willing to do the work. Concerning this bug, it was reported upstream 3 months ago, and there is still no reaction there. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
