Re: Bug#342969: acknowledged by developer (Not buildable with GCC >=4)

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Daniel Baumann writes:
> Matthias Klose wrote:
> > So why is it "absolutely not buildable"?
> 
> See #309121, the asm part of hxclient depends on gcc 3.x. Nobody,
> including upstream, wants or can fix it to comply with 4.x. Anyway, Real
> instead works on a complete rewrite for helix player 2. Until this is
> ready, helix-player 1.x ist lost with gcc 3.x.
> 
> Why not close the bug? Removal of gcc 3.x is not a release-target for
> etch, and for etch+1 there will be helix-player 2.x available hopefully ;)

if we do have the choice to remove the g++-3.4 package or just the
helix-player package, I'd rather prefer to remove the helix-player
package. helix-player isn't a release target as well.

  Matthias