Bug#1074854: brasero: FTBFS with gcc-14

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 at 12:28:10 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > I have a USB optical drive and some media, so I can at least do a
> > smoke-test on it to get this RC bug fixed, assuming my blank media
> > haven't completely delaminated by now.
>
> In fact it doesn't work: with the patch Rebecca found, it compiles
> successfully, but it can't actually burn a data CD-RW on my system. This
> is not a regression, the binaries in testing can't either.
>
> I think we are likely to need some of the other patches contributed
> upstream by the same author. According to
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/brasero/-/issues/374 , Arch Linux is
> already building a git snapshot (possibly also applying changes as patches,
> I'm not sure).

Brasero has been a very low priority for the Debian GNOME team for
years. My guess is that it's been broken for years. However, I can try
to push a bit upstream and see if perhaps that author could publish a
new release.

Because of that potential in the near future and because of how useful
something like Brasero could be for those who need it, I'm hesitant to
disable Brasero support in the other apps today.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha