[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#791508: package gccxml reached end-of-life, successor castxml now available

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Steve,

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 10:28:16PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> I believe you can make the replacement:
> 
> 	gccxml input_file.cc -fxml=output_file.xml
> to	castxml --castxml-gccxml input_file.cc -o output_file.xml

This is really good news but the actual implementation is not as simple
as expected.  I had a look into gdcm and just found some cmake code
checking for gccxml executable and the resulting code is probably auto
generated.

To my opinion it would be great if castxml could provide a wrapper
script /usr/bin/gccxml that does the syntax translation above.  I simply
have commited a proposed script to castxml Git in debian/bin/gccxml for
your inspection.  Opinions about the sense of this idea are welcome -
feel free to delete if you think this is not a good idea.

Mathieu, you have tagged the bug patch but I'm not really sure whether
this slight hint is really a patch or whether some more work needs to
be done.  Any quilt patch would be more than welcome.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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