Bug#897718: cdebconf: ftbfs with GCC-8

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On 07/18/2018 02:09 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> (2018-05-04):
>> The package fails to build in a test rebuild on at least amd64 with
>> gcc-8/g++-8, but succeeds to build with gcc-7/g++-7. The
>> severity of this report will be raised before the buster release.
>>
>> The full build log can be found at:
>> http://aws-logs.debian.net/2018/05/01/gcc8/cdebconf_0.243_unstable_gcc8.log.gz
>> The last lines of the build log are at the end of this report.
>>
>> To build with GCC 8, either set CC=gcc-8 CXX=g++-8 explicitly,
>> or install the gcc, g++, gfortran, ... packages from experimental.
>>
>>   apt-get -t=experimental install g++ 
>>
>> Common build failures are new warnings resulting in build failures with
>> -Werror turned on, or new/dropped symbols in Debian symbols files.
>> For other C/C++ related build failures see the porting guide at
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-8/porting_to.html
> 
> FWIW the severity of this bug report just got upgraded to serious but it
> can be directly reproduced in an up-to-date sid system, as gcc-defaults
> doesn't seem to have been switched to gcc-8 yet.
> 
> It'd be nice if someone could take a look and fix the bug though. :)
> 

https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/cdebconf/merge_requests/2 fixes
the build failure for me.  There's a number of warnings in non-Werror
parts of the code base that might be worth looking at, too.

Cheers,
Julien