Re: CMake 4 upload to unstable
On Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 11:46:19AM +0200, Timo Röhling wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> [2025-09-24 15:13]:
> > The affected bugs are https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=cmake@packages.debian.org&tag=cmake-4
> > of which (at the time of writing) 794 out of 974 are still open. Is that
> > correct?
> Yes, that is correct.
>...
after seeing (and fixing) some of these bugs I have a question:
Is there a good reason why debhelper cannot set
-DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 by default?
In practice maintainers and people like me fixing RC bugs are now
blindly doing this (or bumping cmake_minimum_required) manually
in hundreds of packages.
I do not know whether this would fix all of the 1k RC CMake 4 bugs,
but I haven't seen a different FTBFS cause so far.[1]
> Cheers
> Timo
cu
Adrian
[1] except some false positives due to FTBFS not related to CMake
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