Boinc and future plans

[GUO Yixuan]

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 09:18:09AM +0100, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> 
> I also uploaded the experimental package, to avoid the "new" queue
> again 

Yes, I agree it's useful and good to keep a version in experimental.

> (will it ever reach unstable? What is the status of the
> server packages?).

no sure...

> 
> Just a few questions:
> 
> I fixed the gcc-4.9 build failure and another bug, but I didn't 
> upload the patches since I'm not completely comfortable in them
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-boinc/boinc.git;a=commitdiff;h=9b04285b60c1d552f7715d5441bbf06427219b7f
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-boinc/boinc.git;a=commitdiff;h=ceb0b09971fc4faf2b5fd52bce89ef742c2dae02
> 
> specially the second commit is something that bothers me a lot 
> (I removed the "-static" flag to many libraries, because gcc was 
> throwing "undefined symbol" errors).

I vaguely remember that the "-static" flags were kept, because of some
build failure when they were removed. But that was back in 2012, and
certainly gcc has changed. (although I don't see any connection
between "-static" and undefined symbols...)
> 
> Are them ok for you?

These patches appear to be fine. (and anyway we can fix them if there's
any problems.) My only minor suggestion is that it's better to separate
two (seemingly) unrelated patches into two commits.

> the new gcc-4.9 is going to be uploaded as default really soon, and
> would be nice to don't be hit unprepared this time.

Certainly nice, thank you a lot!

Cheers,

Yixuan