Bug#793285: closed by Martin Quinson <martin.quinson at ens-rennes.fr> (Widelands builds without any problem with gcc5)

Martin Quinson martin.quinson at ens-rennes.fr
Wed Mar 15 22:52:58 UTC 2017


> > As for the long delay, yes. I'm doing my best, but it's not always
> > enough, sorry. When you first reported that bug, I did not feel
> > skilled enough to install an unstable build chain and test things in a
> > certain manner. Plus, I was thinking that a swamp recompilation of the
> > whole archive with gcc5 (once I've sorted out how to make an
> > experimental image) may have been more efficient than a swamp of bug
> > reporting "warning, *possible* issue ahead". But that's not easy
> > either. I did not know how to react about your bug report, and then I
> > forgot about it, sorry. 
> 
> The problem does not manifest itself with just a rebuild.  If you rebuilt the
> package, and checked it's (not rebuilt) rdeps still work with the rebuilt
> package, then sure, the package doesn't seem to be affected.  But the subject
> "Widelands builds without any problem with gcc5" doesn't seem to suggest that.

Indeed, I did not do that testing. But that may be connected to the
fact that this package does not have any rdeps beside some meta-packages ;)

Thanks for your patience, I now betterly understand the problem you
first reported. I was lucky in the first place.

Thanks for your time, too.
Mt.
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