Mass GCC 4.6 bug filling (Re: Bug#624997: writerperfect: FTBFS: Style.hxx:36:45: error: 'NULL' was not declared in this scope)

2011-05-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear Lucas and everybody, the recent archive rebuild uncovered a large number of GCC 4.6 build failures (that could been already forseen from Launchpad). In the long run, I find very impressive the contribution from the major Linux distribution to their upstreams for keeping them up to date with

Re: Mass GCC 4.6 bug filling (Re: Bug#624997: writerperfect: FTBFS: Style.hxx:36:45: error: 'NULL' was not declared in this scope)

2011-05-03 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:32, Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: However, given my experience of repetitive patching cycles with earlier GCC updates, it would be pointless to spend a lot of energy updating our packages now if it is only to realise in few weeks that the next GCC update

Re: Mass GCC 4.6 bug filling (Re: Bug#624997: writerperfect: FTBFS: Style.hxx:36:45: error: 'NULL' was not declared in this scope)

2011-05-03 Thread Didier Raboud
Sandro Tosi wrote: Who do you expect to send such communication? the gcc maintainer? good luck with that. Do we really need that type of public bashing on -devel ? Your gripes with Matthias are notorious enough to avoid the need to repeat them all over the place, IHMO. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Mass GCC 4.6 bug filling (Re: Bug#624997: writerperfect: FTBFS: Style.hxx:36:45: error: 'NULL' was not declared in this scope)

2011-05-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 05/03/2011 12:09 PM, Didier Raboud wrote: Sandro Tosi wrote: Who do you expect to send such communication? the gcc maintainer? good luck with that. Do we really need that type of public bashing on -devel ? Your gripes with Matthias are notorious enough to avoid the need to repeat them

Re: Bug#624997: writerperfect: FTBFS: Style.hxx:36:45: error: 'NULL' was not declared in this scope

2011-05-03 Thread Didier Raboud
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Note that the alternatives are: - tag it 'sid'. But then, I would need to determine the root cause of each FTBFS, and when the status of the FTBFS changes in testing. - do not tag it. But then, it would be seen as affecting stable. What I would need is a way to

Re: Mass GCC 4.6 bug filling (Re: Bug#624997: writerperfect: FTBFS: Style.hxx:36:45: error: 'NULL' was not declared in this scope)

2011-05-03 Thread Matthias Klose
On 05/03/2011 11:32 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: the recent archive rebuild uncovered a large number of GCC 4.6 build failures (that could been already forseen from Launchpad). In the long run, I find very impressive the contribution from the major Linux distribution to their upstreams for keeping

Re: Bug#624997: writerperfect: FTBFS: Style.hxx:36:45: error: 'NULL' was not declared in this scope

2011-05-03 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 07:21:28AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: (Ccing -devel@, since I have been asked about that by others) On 03/05/11 at 01:16 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: tag 624997 - wheezy thanks On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 02:39:43PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Source:

Re: Mass GCC 4.6 bug filling (Re: Bug#624997: writerperfect: FTBFS: Style.hxx:36:45: error: 'NULL' was not declared in this scope)

2011-05-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, May 03, 2011 at 05:21:06PM +0200, Matthias Klose a écrit : GCC usually has a twelve months release cycle, so you'll see the next set of missing include headers in spring 2012, and in Debian, if unstable isn't frozen by this time. Thanks for the information. I just got a bug from you

Re: Mass GCC 4.6 bug filling (Re: Bug#624997: writerperfect: FTBFS: Style.hxx:36:45: error: 'NULL' was not declared in this scope)

2011-05-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, (not a gcc maintainer) Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org (04/05/2011): I just got a bug from you explaining some changes (= more FTBFS) about 4.6.1. Will there be similar 4.6.x changes in the future ? my reading of it is that to prevent too many FTBFSes while introducing 4.6 in Debian,

Re: Mass GCC 4.6 bug filling (Re: Bug#624997: writerperfect: FTBFS: Style.hxx:36:45: error: 'NULL' was not declared in this scope)

2011-05-03 Thread Matthias Klose
On 05/04/2011 12:24 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi, (not a gcc maintainer) Charles Plessyple...@debian.org (04/05/2011): I just got a bug from you explaining some changes (= more FTBFS) about 4.6.1. Will there be similar 4.6.x changes in the future ? my reading of it is that to prevent too

Re: Bug#624997: writerperfect: FTBFS: Style.hxx:36:45: error: 'NULL' was not declared in this scope

2011-05-02 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
(Ccing -devel@, since I have been asked about that by others) On 03/05/11 at 01:16 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: tag 624997 - wheezy thanks On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 02:39:43PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Source: writerperfect Version: 0.8.0-3 Severity: serious Tags: wheezy sid No.