Bug#1074976: fweb: ftbfs with GCC-14

[Preuße , Hilmar]

On 9/11/2025 10:43 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:

Am Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 11:19:59PM +0200 schrieb Preuße, Hilmar:

Hello Andreas,

In 2023 version 1.70 was released, not sure if it makes sense to have a look
at that version.

Today fweb was a candidate for the Bug of the Day[1] and thus I checked
this bug.  I'm positively convinced that if we want to keep the package
inside Debian than it makes sense to do so inside the TeX team.  Thus
I've created a repository in this team space[2].

Thanks for that. However I'm not a programmer and I'm not eager to maintain a piece a software, which is considered to be dead in upstream, as I probably will never be able to address upstream bugs. I would need help here and I guess I can't expect that other people do the job.

I also think we should base the packaging on the latest upstream version.
So I checked the Homepage[3] where I actually found the statement

    FWEB was updated to version 1.70 in 2023

hille@rasppi3:~ $ ls -l fweb-1.70-beta.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hille hille 3423018 Sep 11 10:54 fweb-1.70-beta.tar.gz



I can try to package the new version, but don't expect to much.

Hilmar
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After logging in using your google account, one gets a file, which says "beta" in the name: As said: the new version uses cmake, so the Debian part needs probably redone anyway.

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