Bug#817078: ITA: boxbackup
> I looked at the bug report which says that boxbackup fails to compile with gcc 11. I did not see any update from you or any proposed patch. I'm not familiar with mentors, but I'm happy to sponsor you from time to time (sorry, I cannot promise timely reactions) if I'm able to see and review your changes.
I only updated the packaging to allow for porting with the different architectures. Here is the link to the package on mentors: https://mentors.debian.net/package/boxbackup/
If you are able to sponsor, thank you very much!
> Did you publish your changes to some git repository? Consider pushing your changes to salsa and configuring your repository in a way that updates the bug if the commit message references it. This way a potential sponsor (such as me) can easily review your approach to solving the issue.
> As for the specific question of using gcc-10: This might be an acceptable workaround for the time being. I would suggest you as new maintainer to bring this issue to the attention of the boxbackup developers upstream and ask if they can change the code in a way to allow compilation with both gcc 10 and 11. Ideally you can even provide them a patch for that!
I was planning on updating the salsa git repo after adopting the package. I noticed that there is a merge request there that fixes the g++-11 issue. I just submitted the package again to mentors with this patch so that both the porting and gcc issues could be addressed in the same version. I will make these updates to salsa after it is approved.
Ileana
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