Bug#740941: shibboleth-sp2: FTBFS with libmemcached-1.0.18-1 from experimental

[Russ Allbery]

Michael Fladischer <michael at fladi.at> writes:
> On 2014-03-17 05:35, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> It seems a little weird that a shared library would force all programs
>> that want to use it to have to build in a particular standardization
>> mode. Are you sure that's the right path forward?  It's particularly
>> problematic if packages won't build with C++11, although maybe we're
>> supposed to be moving the whole archive to that?

> I didn't like this approach either, but it was the most straight forward
> one that didn't require to patch libmemcached. But in the end, the best
> way would be to patch it. I'm preparing a new version of libmemcached
> which will enter experimental as soon as I have confirmed that all its
> reverse dependencies can build with it.

Ah, excellent, thanks.  That will give Shibboleth upstream a chance to
look at C++11 at their leisure.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>