Hi Vincent,
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.
I agree.
> 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.
I disagree.
> Concerning this bug, it was reported upstream 3 months ago, and
> there is still no reaction there.
You are aware, that at least for mosh the Debian package maintainer
and main upstream developer of Mosh is the same person? So actually
the forwarding of this bug report into the upstream bug tracker was an
upstream reaction itself.
Regards, Axel
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