Hi Stable Release Managers,
Please could you comment on the mail below?
Thanks,
Aurelien
Alex Chiang a écrit :
Hi Aurelien,
* Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Alex Chiang a écrit :
I'm hitting:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408596
On my ia64/etch install. This is causing problems for me when I
attempt to use sparse.
Is there any chance you could consider this fix for etch? The fix
itself looks very benign, and non-intrusive.
I don't think such a fix is possible for Etch, as this bug does not meet
the requirements for an update in a stable version. See:
http://release.debian.org/stable/3.1/3.1r8/
I don't want to push this too hard, because:
a) I'm running sparse with -Werror
b) obviously cpp doesn't seem to care
But I would like to point out that:
a) sparse is a quite useful tool for developers[1]
b) it will give a *lot* of spurious warnings because of 408596
c) the fix for 408596 is trivial and obviously correct
Since etch is 'stable', it's gonna be around for a long time. It
would be nice to backport [EMAIL PROTECTED] fix to support FOSS developers who
have chosen debian/stable as a development environment.
FWIW, I tripped across this bug even though upstream did not,
because upstream was developing against a Fedora 9 userspace. And
we did end up working around this problem [2].
Well trying to convince me won't help, as I am not the one taking the
decision. Asking the stable release manager for their opinion.
Thanks.
/ac
1: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/devel/sparse/
2: http://oss.oracle.com/mercurial/zab/crfs/rev/f8c423608c93
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