]] Wei Liu > On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 05:47:27 +1030 Ron <r...@debian.org> wrote: > [...] > > That's basically why "just nuke htags now" is starting to look like > > a viable, and even sensible, option. But it's tricky to know who > > might be upset by that - and we don't have a clear idea of exactly > > what we'd really gain elsewhere from that tradeoff, since most of > > the people saying "I need a new upstream" haven't actually been > > telling us what the real problem is which that fixes, even when I > > asked. > > Gtags in Debian doesn't work with modern code base. Last time I tried (several > years ago), it segfault'ed while trying to index Linux kernel.
FWIW, it worked fine in a test run I just did (on linux-4.9 rc 1), and last time I used it, it also worked fine with the emacs integration, so I don't recognise the crying from the rooftops about it being broken in Debian. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are