fails to build from source in maverick

[Matthias Klose]

Binary package hint: kubuntu-notification-helper

fails to build in maverick:

[ 63%] Building CXX object src/daemon/CMakeFiles/kded_notificationhelper.dir/installevent/installevent.o
cd /build/buildd/kubuntu-notification-helper-10.10ubuntu1/obj-i686-linux-gnu/src/daemon && /usr/bin/c++ -DMAKE_KDED_NOTIFICATIONHELPER_LIB -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_CAST_TO_ASCII -D_REENTRANT -DKDE_DEPRECATED_WARNINGS -g -O2 -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -ansi -Wundef -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wformat-security -fno-exceptions -DQT_NO_EXCEPTIONS -fno-check-new -fno-common -Woverloaded-virtual -fno-threadsafe-statics -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -DNDEBUG -DQT_NO_DEBUG -fPIC -I/build/buildd/kubuntu-notification-helper-10.10ubuntu1/obj-i686-linux-gnu/src/daemon -I/build/buildd/kubuntu-notification-helper-10.10ubuntu1/src/daemon -I/usr/include/KDE -I/usr/include/qt4/phonon -I/usr/include/qt4/QtXmlPatterns -I/usr/include/qt4/QtXml -I/usr/include/qt4/QtWebKit -I/usr/include/qt4/QtUiTools -I/usr/include/qt4/QtTest -I/usr/include/qt4/QtSvg -I/usr/include/qt4/QtSql -I/usr/include/qt4/QtScriptTools -I/usr/include/qt4/QtScript -I/usr/include/qt4/QtNetwork -I/usr/include/qt4/QtMultimedia -I/usr/include/qt4/QtHelp -I/usr/include/qt4/QtDesigner -I/usr/include/qt4/QtDeclarative -I/usr/include/qt4/QtDBus -I/usr/include/qt4/Qt3Support -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt4/Qt -I/usr/share/qt4/mkspecs/default -I/usr/include/qt4 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -o CMakeFiles/kded_notificationhelper.dir/installevent/installevent.o -c /build/buildd/kubuntu-notification-helper-10.10ubuntu1/src/daemon/installevent/installevent.cpp
/build/buildd/kubuntu-notification-helper-10.10ubuntu1/src/daemon/installevent/installevent.cpp: In constructor 'InstallEvent::InstallEvent(QObject*, QString)':
/build/buildd/kubuntu-notification-helper-10.10ubuntu1/src/daemon/installevent/installevent.cpp:35: error: call of overloaded 'QString(int)' is ambiguous
/usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qstring.h:428: note: candidates are: QString::QString(const QByteArray&)
/usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qstring.h:426: note: QString::QString(const char*)
/usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qstring.h:727: note: QString::QString(const QString&)
/usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qstring.h:106: note: QString::QString(QChar)
/usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qstring.h:105: note: QString::QString(const QChar*)
make[3]: *** [src/daemon/CMakeFiles/kded_notificationhelper.dir/installevent/installevent.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/kubuntu-notification-helper-10.10ubuntu1/obj-i686-linux-gnu'
make[2]: *** [src/daemon/CMakeFiles/kded_notificationhelper.dir/all] Error 2

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Fix is in bzr, but upload is blocked by a MIR. But this isn't an alpha-3 release blocker, moving milestone.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Fixed in 10.10ubuntu2, at the time the fix went in to bzr and debian/changelog there wasn't an open bug, so I'm closing this now manually.