Bug#887649: cdebconf-gtk-terminal: Please don't depend on unmaintained vte
On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 at 21:27:47 +0100, Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> > We don't do c++ in d-i.
>
> Unfortunately this sounds really problematic. As of version 0.42 vte
> has been using (more and more) C++. This is not like Ubuntu's PCRE2
> hack which is a matter of a few hours of work reverting and merging a
> few commits. It's reasonably impossible to revert to plain C and
> maintain that as a fork, and upstream has no intention to revert to C
> either.
One way to resolve this might be to build the vte2.91 udeb with
-static-libstdc++, which makes it about 200K larger than it would
otherwise have been, but avoids needing a 1.5M shared libstdc++. vte
exports a C ABI, and only uses C++ internally.
We need to upload a new vte2.91 to experimental anyway, so I'm going
to try this - d-i doesn't currently use that udeb anyway, so there's
nothing to lose by trying it.
smcv
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