Control: forwarded -1 https://sourceforge.net/p/sfftools/tickets/1/
On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 10:23:40PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 09:09:10PM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> > I think it makes more sense to patch the upstream Makefile to use CXX
> > instead of CC (we already patch it to support CXXFLAGS, etc). I should
> > probably try to push that patch upstream, though upstream isn't very
> > active.
>
> I concur that renaming the variable is a better solution. It would help
> other distributions as well.
Now filed upstream.
> > This doesn't seem suitable for unstable during the freeze, but I'll
> > upload to experimental. Feel free to NMU to unstable once we're
> > unfrozen if I don't get to it.
>
> I concur that this is not freeze material (and that should be obvious
> from the chosen severity). I don't think an experimental upload is
> necessary here. Just make sure that you close this bug if you make
> progress. Doing so will trigger a retest on my end (once it reaches
> unstable) and I can reopen in case it still doesn't work.
I've already uploaded. I wanted to test the amended patch built before
pushing it upstream, so it was almost no extra work to make an upload
of the build.
Cheers,
Olly
