On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 05:44:02PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Hi, > > On 2026-02-22 11:32, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 05:17:07PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > Source: rcs-blame > > > Version: 1.4+20240206-1 > > > > that's old. I've updated it a couple of times since that point. > > > > 20251006 is "current" > > Hmm, this still seems the newest available version:
sure - but I'm "upstream",
- not a DD, and
- would need a sponsor to do the work myself.
> $ rmadison rcs-blame
> rcs-blame | 1.3.1-4.2 | oldoldstable | source, amd64, arm64,
> armhf, i386
> rcs-blame | 1.3.1-4.2 | oldstable | source, amd64, arm64,
> armel, armhf, i386, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
> rcs-blame | 1.4+20240206-1 | stable | source, amd64, arm64,
> armel, armhf, i386, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
> rcs-blame | 1.4+20240206-1 | testing | source, amd64, armhf, i386,
> ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
> rcs-blame | 1.4+20240206-1 | unstable | source, amd64, armhf, i386,
> loong64, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
> rcs-blame | 1.4+20240206-1 | unstable-debug | source
> rcs-blame | 1.4+20240206-1+b1 | testing | arm64
> rcs-blame | 1.4+20240206-1+b1 | unstable | arm64
>
> > > Severity: important
> > > Tags: ftbfs upstream
> > > Justification: fails to build from source
> > > User: [email protected]
> > > Usertags: glibc-2.43
> > >
> > > Dear maintainer(s),
> > >
> > > rcs-blame fails to build from source with glibc 2.43, currently in
> > > experimental. From the build log:
> >
> > ...but I'm not tracking experimental (it would help if this report started
> > from 20251006)
>
> Where is this packaged?
>
> > > The full build log is available here [1].
> > >
> > > The issue is due to ISO C23 declaration of bsearch, memchr, strchr,
> > > strpbrk, strrchr, strstr, wcschr, wcspbrk, wcsrchr, wcsstr and wmemchr,
> > > which now returns a pointer to a const-qualified type when the input
> > > argument is a pointer to a const-qualified type [2].
> >
> > fwiw, I'd used gcc 15.2.1 in October.
>
> This is not linked with GCC 15, but rather to a changed introduced in
> glibc 2.43 to support this ISO C23 feature.
I understand (have seen some unnecessary breakage due to this feature)
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Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
https://invisible-island.net
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