Package: libglm-dev Version: 0.9.9~a2-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
The packaged version of GLM, 0.9.9~a2 is an alpha (the current release is still 0.9.8.5) and removes the default initialization of vector, matrix and quaternion types. Because of this code written against any earlier versions of GLM may now have uninitialized value bugs introduced by this change (e.g. where GLM types are member variables of a class) or now behave differently (mat4() previously gave you an identity matrix, now this gives you a zero'd matrix). Several issues have been raised upstream (including by myself) to re-add initialization or at least make it optional. This is the commit that introduced the change: https://github.com/g-truc/glm/commit/4cf8a10af2bba678c2ad136006e6ec41118b6746 Additionally the requirement in this version to define GLM_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL to use simple functions like length2() has broken multiple packages. I have put off fixing this since making it compile just exposes the user to the uninitialized value bugs. Unfortunately this has now meant my gource and logstalgia debian packages have been removed from debian since they don't complile with this GLM version. Related upstream issues: https://github.com/g-truc/glm/issues/740 https://github.com/g-truc/glm/issues/735 https://github.com/g-truc/glm/issues/732 IMO the ideal solution would be for 0.9.8.5 to be packaged instead, or at the very least revert the initialization change. I believe 0.9.9~a2 was originally packaged as it included an upstream fix to compile with GCC 7.3. Some other distros have instead patched 0.9.8.5: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/diff/media- libs/glm?id=1e45f7cd1dfa04ef4b89eb453df04b62ee432425 -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled -- no debconf information -- debian-science-maintainers mailing list debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers
