[Aptitude-devel] Bug#777778: Bug#792681: cwidget ftbfs with GCC 5

[Matthias Klose]

On 07/18/2015 11:29 PM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> Anyway, aptitude with GCC-5 and -std=c++98 also suffers the same problem as
> cwidget, because it fails to compile the cwidget header, if nothing else.  But
> if cwidget goes C++11, it forces aptitude to go C++11, and it doesn't work for
> other reasons (that I am working to fix), so we are between a rock and a hard
> place.
> 
> Even if I can fix things in time before the deadline, maybe subtle changes like
> the ABI problems make aptitude fail in catastrophic ways, there is not much time
> to expose it and be tested before the deadline in experimental or similar.
> 
> I am thinking that the best solution is to force them to stay with gcc-4.9 for
> the time being, it looks the safest bet.  After that or in parallel, as soon as
> I get things working, I can upload to experimental the changes that allow them
> to work with C++11, and keep it there for a while before moving to unstable.

no, this is definitely *not* an option.  cwidget and aptitude b-d on
libsigc++-2, and this will be built using GCC 5.  There will be neither g++-4.9
nor g++-4.8 in the archive once we finish this transition.  Maintainers don't
have the choice to fall-back to an older version this time.

Matthias