Bug#193748: debian-policy: gcc-3.3 no longer has <varargs.h>
On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 09:26:43PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 08:33:01PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > > In light of recent changes, I suggest that policy should instead say:
> > >
> > > How about we just remove the whole section? The software now makes it clear
> > > that the old stuff is a bug, and it's not like we need the Policy Manual
> > > to say "fix the obvious bug".
I concur, although perhaps it's still valuable to leave the libtermcap
comments there since it (presumably) doesn't trigger a compiler warning
in the same way.
> > Maybe we should wait a bit before remove it ? See how many
> > packages are affected, what feed back we get, etc...
>
> Well, that's my point. No packages should be affected -- in fact in sid
> I see only one dependency on termcap-compat, cmucl-source. I doubt there
> are many more sources using varargs.h, but I don't have numbers, so that
> might have to be investigated further.
I filed this bug after running into xisp, which uses it. I don't recall
encountering anything similar before, although of course the compiler
change is very recent.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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