Bug#80448: lintian check for fixed headers

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

Russ Allbery schrieb:
> Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
> 
>> gcc checks at build time all "system" headers (in /usr/include) and
>> fixes those headers which are not ANSI compliant. Because of
>> conflicting -dev packages, not all headers can be checked at gcc's
>> build time, so that could be made a lintian check (warning). I made an
>> experimental `fixincludes' package, which lintian could use. Runs as
>> fixinclude <directory with headers to fix> <directory where to place
>> fixed headers>. You find it at http://master.debian.org/~doko/gcc.
> 
> Hi Matthias,
> 
> This bug is about eight years old now.  I ran across it while checking
> over Lintian's open bugs.
> 
> My impression from following GCC development recently and just the general
> feel of looking at include files from various packages is that this has
> slowly become a non-issue over the years.  I see that the gcc package
> ships only a minimal set of fixed headers to deal with GCC's internal data
> types and other issues.
> 
> Do you think this is still something that Lintian should be looking into?
> I see that there is a fixincludes package still provided by the gcc
> packages, although I don't think anyone ever did the work to make Lintian
> use it.

Hi,

well, more headers are fixed, but I don't include these in the gcc package. I
still think to find out how many headers are affected, we have to run the test
at least once. Not sure how many many header files will be found.

  Matthias