Bug#1083127: opencascade FTBFS: error: invalid conversion from ‘unsigned char*’ to ‘const char*’ [-fpermissive]

[Santiago Vila]

El 2/10/24 a las 7:44, Francesco Ballarin escribió:
> FYI, I am reasonably sure that
> https://github.com/Open-Cascade-SAS/OCCT/commit/7236e83dcc1e7284e66dc61e612154617ef715d6.patch
> will fix the issue.

Great. I've converted the above patch to Debian form (see attach).
(but it's untested yet).

Tobias: Can you handle this as the usual uploader?

Or maybe it would help if I make a "team upload"?

Thanks.
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commit e16744ea146ef4a39fe2f3c0f7b4dfb3ad14be95
Author: Santiago Vila <sanvila at debian.org>
Date:   Wed Oct 2 15:05:00 2024 +0200

    Use auto instead of specific type. Closes: #1083127.

diff --git a/debian/patches/0013-use-auto-instead-of-specific-type.patch b/debian/patches/0013-use-auto-instead-of-specific-type.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..aa18f6187
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/0013-use-auto-instead-of-specific-type.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+From: dpasukhi <dpasukhi at opencascade.com>
+Subject: [PATCH] 0033808: Coding - FreeType Use unsigned point and contour indexing in `FT_Outline`
+Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/1083127
+
+Changes to auto instead of specific type
+---
+ src/StdPrs/StdPrs_BRepFont.cxx | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+--- a/src/StdPrs/StdPrs_BRepFont.cxx
++++ b/src/StdPrs/StdPrs_BRepFont.cxx
+@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@
+   for (short aContour = 0, aStartIndex = 0; aContour < anOutline->n_contours; ++aContour)
+   {
+     const FT_Vector* aPntList = &anOutline->points[aStartIndex];
+-    const char* aTags      = &anOutline->tags[aStartIndex];
++    const auto* aTags      = &anOutline->tags[aStartIndex];
+     const short anEndIndex = anOutline->contours[aContour];
+     const short aPntsNb    = (anEndIndex - aStartIndex) + 1;
+     aStartIndex = anEndIndex + 1;
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 6e3d95104..054544d09 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ do-not-use-doxygen-searchengine.patch
 0010-fix-cmake-module.patch
 0011-cmake-workaround-tbbmemory.patch
 0012-cmake-do-not-export-ffile-prefix.patch
+0013-use-auto-instead-of-specific-type.patch