Hello backporters, I have a question for you, please share your opinion. There is widely used (in some countries) instant messenger Telegram. It has desktop client telegram-desktop Nicholas Guriev maintains in Debian. Unfortunately it is not included in stable distribution. That is not a problem, I backported it to stretch-backports and it works well. But new upstream version (currently entering sid) is written on C++17 which is barely supported by gcc6.3. And now it FTBFS with gcc from stable. IIRC, newer g++ output links with new libstd++, so it's not possible to install it in the same system without recompiling all (c++) dependencies with newer g++ (with soname change and so on), so it's possible to just backport g++7.2. So here is the question itself: Is there any common practice in debian-packports for such situation? (For now, I think it's still possible to port the code on c++14 for backports purpose (add is_same_v<> alias and so on) since it does not use much from new standard AFAIR, but I'm sure this will not be possible in long term.) -- Best regards, Alexander Gerasiov Contacts: e-mail: gq@cs.msu.su WWW: http://gerasiov.net Telegram/Skype: gerasiov PGP fingerprint: 04B5 9D90 DF7C C2AB CD49 BAEA CA87 E9E8 2AAC 33F1
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