pose bug

[Neil Roeth <neil@debian.org>]

On Oct 25, Juan Manuel Garcia Molina (juanma@debian.org) wrote:
 > Hi.
 > 
 > I'd like to share with you an issue on pose package and a grave functionality 
 > bug.
 > 
 > So the story begins: pose is a 'Palm OS Emulator' package. The last version in 
 > sid doesn't work because of a grave functionality bug [1].
 > 
 > The previous version of the package was compiled using gcc 2.95 and the 
 > version 1.0 of the fltk library, and everything was almost O.K.. Last version 
 > in sid was compiled using gcc 3.3 and fltk 1.1, and the packages build works 
 > nicely but the application doesn't.
 > 
 > I've been a few weeks trying to solve the problem, but I'm not able to fix the 
 > problem. I forwarded the bug to upstream author, but pose is an abandoned 
 > project.
 > 
 > So, once the problem is exposed, there are two possible alternatives:
 > 
 > A) Fix the bug: As I said before, help is welcome. If you can help me to fix 
 > the bug, I'd be very glad.
 > 
 > B) Upload a package that works, but using gcc 2.95 and fltk 1.0.
 > 
 > I'd like to hear your opinions on this issue.

I'd revert to gcc 2.95 so there is a working package, then continue trying to
get it to work with 3.3.  2.95 is still the recommended compiler for the
2.4 kernel, so it's not about to go away.

-- 
Neil Roeth