Hi sorry for my late reply - though being listed as a maintainer for the libcerf package I did not recieve a mail from the Debian bug tracker. I am quite new to the Debian packaging world - so most probably I did something wrong or forgot to regsiter somewher.
Anyhow ... On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 22:51:50 +0200 Simon Paillard <spaill...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 08:38:03AM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: > > Package: libcerf-doc,manpages-dev > > Version: libcerf-doc/1.3-1 > > Version: manpages-dev/3.71-1 > > Severity: serious > > User: trei...@debian.org > > Usertags: edos-file-overwrite > > Thanks for the report ! Indeed - yes - thanks for the report. [...] > > Several facts: > * both cerf.3 and cerfc.3 are already provided in manpages debian package > since > 10 years before libcerf upload in June 2014 > * the function names are reserved for future use in C99. > > Options: > * rename cerf functions and manpages of libcerf (avoid use of reserved names) > or > * manpages-dev to stop installing cerf.3 and cerfc.3 manpages > > * anyway, Michael, if you read me, I suggest you mention libcerf in the cerf* > manpages. Just now I informed the upstream maintainers of libcerf about this. I am pretty sure they simply where not aware of the fact that these functions are already mentioned in the C99 standard. I am just not sure if they manage to change the upstream code in time to make it until the freeze of Jessie. I have not found cerf and cerfc in the documentation for glibc 2.20 so I assume that these functions would not be provided by the glibc version shipped with Jessie. Hence, I suggest to remove cerf.3 and cerfc.3 from manpages-dev as long as glibc does not provide this functionality. I am very well aware of the fact that this looks a bit like makeing this a sombody else's problem. However, in my opinion manpages of a package providing a particular functionality should have precedence. In any case this can only be an intermediate solution until upstream has renamed the functions. regards Eugen > > -- > Simon Paillard > >
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