[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1097934: staden: ftbfs with GCC-15

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 05:55:08PM +0000, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Package: src:staden
> Version: 2.0.0+b11-5
> Severity: important
> Tags: sid forky
> User: debian-gcc at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: ftbfs-gcc-15
>...
> align.c:22:36: error: initialization of ‘void (*)(void)’ from incompatible pointer type ‘void (*)(char *, FastInt (*)[6], int,  int,  char *, FastInt (*)[6], int *, int *, FastInt *, int)’ {aka ‘void (*)(char *, int (*)[6], int,  int,  char *, int (*)[6], int *, int *, int *, int)’} [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
>    22 |                                    expand_6,
>       |                                    ^~~~~~~~
> align.c:22:36: note: (near initialization for ‘expand_arr[2]’)
> align_lib_old.h:11:13: note: ‘expand_6’ declared here
>    11 | extern void expand_6(char *A, FastInt (*B)[6], int M, int N,
>       |             ^~~~~~~~
>...

I suggest you just do
  export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -std=gnu17
in debian/rules, since it is not completely trivial to fix in this
old codebase.

The code will continue to work just as good (or bad?) as before.

cu
Adrian