On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 06:52:55AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 12:42:44AM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > In general, if it is a new gcc release, we will likely have seen the > > issue before upstream or in another distro and can providing a patch to > > include in the debian package can normally be done in 3 days. This > > is what we do with other distros too. > > While that doesn't reflect elfutils' Debian history, the prospect is > useful to work with. I am willing to try. Please go ahead and upload the > two gcc-8 fixes you mentioned in your other mail to unstable.
I think we can fully conclude now, that your approach doesn't work at all *for Debian*. > I think you can close this bug when doing so. We'll see how it goes. If > it happens to not fix -Werror fallout in a timely manner I'll open it > again. This bug is still open. And now it carries more weight for actually removing -Werror. Does anyone object to me NMUing the change? So to me, this doesn't look like an upstream elfutils problem at all. What it looks like is an overloaded maintainer (Cced): * Last two uploads were NMUs. * Last maintainer upload was in June 2017. * The Debian BTS has 5 bugs tagged patch. Helmut
