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Package: src:dpkg
Version: 1.22.13
the changelog reads:
- Bump minimum required C++ standard to C++14.
- Warn on C++17, C++20, C++23 and C++26 extensions usage.
While it maybe too late about a minimum C++17, please don't warn about
C++17. This is the default since GCC 11 [1], and was already the
default for the last Debian release.
Even better, please consider making C++17 the default for trixie.
Thanks, Matthias
[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-11/changes.html
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Hi!
On Sun, 2025-01-12 at 21:34:21 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Package: src:dpkg
> Version: 1.22.13
> the changelog reads:
>
> - Bump minimum required C++ standard to C++14.
> - Warn on C++17, C++20, C++23 and C++26 extensions usage.
This was within the "Build system" section in the changelog, which
describes the dpkg own build system (and its own C++ usage for
dselect), which is not related to external source packages it might
end up building.
This is what I consider the minimum that dselect itself can assume to
be provided by all the systems dpkg is currently ported on. And where
I want the code to warn about newer language constructs so that
portability can be preserved.
> While it maybe too late about a minimum C++17, please don't warn about
> C++17. This is the default since GCC 11 [1], and was already the default
> for the last Debian release.
> Even better, please consider making C++17 the default for trixie.
dpkg does not and has never specified any baseline C++ (or C) version,
this has always been in the purview of the C++ (C) toolchains. It would
not cross my mind to specify or lower/bump any of the above, w/o
coordinating such transition within Debian, and currently I don't see
any need to start doing that from the dpkg side, TBH, so I have no plans
on that regard.
Given the above, I'm closing this report, as I don't think there's
anything to change or fix in dpkg.
Thanks,
Guillem
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