[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#417482: Building probcons with gcc 4.3

[Chuong (Tom) Do]

Hi Charles,

I've made the suggested additions to the probcons 1.12 package, which is 
now available.

Thanks,
Chuong (Tom) Do

Charles Plessy wrote:
> Dear Chuong,
> 
> 	I have been noticed by a Debian developper doing some software
> audits on the whole distribution that probcons will not be buildable
> with gcc 4.3 unless some (trivial) modifications are applied. You can
> find more information in the following bug report :
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=41748
> 
> 	There are two ways for me to solve this bug in Debian: either
> applying a patch locally, or upgrading the package to a new upstream
> version which would fix the problem. As gcc 4.3 is not yet the default
> compiler in Debian, there is no hurry. I would like to know if you are
> interested to release an updated version of probcons which integrates
> the patch proposed by Martin Michlmayr in the Debian bug report.
> 
> PS: if you answer to 417482 at bugs.debian.org, your email will be
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> 
> 	Have a nice day,
>