Comment 113 for bug 991179

Hello,

On 05/10/2012 04:05 PM, Thomas Ward wrote:
> New Updates:
>
> It may be prudent to deal with the Quantal side first.
>
> The issue on Quantal is that 7.0.27 has an issue of FTBFS (Fails to
> build from Source). It may be prudent to talk to the MOTUs and see
> whether they'd support a sync to Quantal with the FTBFS included, and
> then backport from Quantal to Precise where it does build.
>
> This would require additional discussion with the MOTUs (in my opinion),
> either by someone here, or by myself, but if they're supportive of the
> idea of syncing with Quantal with the FTBFS issue for the sake of
> backporting to Precise (Note someone'd need to test build/run this),
> then unless any of you files the sync request, I'll file it.
>
> ------
>
> Also, if the FTBFS issue on Quantal has anything to do with Debian Bug
> #671999, then that will be available for sync sometime next week.
>
> ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #671999
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=671999
That is a friendly non-maintainer upload fixing the missing "#include
unistd.h" everywhere that gcc 4.7 requests. Sadly, the patch that should
be out is still in.
The version I just asked Thorsten to be uploaded closes that bug and
also this one (lp: 99179).

To me, the way through Quantal is just fine. Debian does the same with
backports.debian.org. What goes in there as a new package is also in
unstable.

Steffen