default xenial g++ compiler gives warnings about deprecated use of std::auto_ptr in this package.

[Carlo Wood]

Default xenial install leaves me with a flood of the following when trying to compile my application, using libxml++2.6:

In file included from /usr/include/libxml++-2.6/libxml++/libxml++.h:54:0,
[...snip...]
/usr/include/libxml++-2.6/libxml++/parsers/textreader.h:260:10: warning: ‘template<class> class std::auto_ptr’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
     std::auto_ptr<PropertyReader> propertyreader;

as well as similar warnings about std::auto_ptr elsewhere in libxml++ headers.

The work around is to ignore the warnings or turn them off, but that is not
what I should have to do (I need to have warnings turned on, as a developer).

Regards,
Carlo

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: libxml++2.6-dev 2.40.1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-57.78-generic 4.4.35
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-57-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Fri Jan 6 02:44:54 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-01-11 (360 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 14.04.3 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20150805)
SourcePackage: libxml++2.6
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-10-29 (68 days ago)

[Murray Cumming (murrayc)]

This was fixed upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753123

[Carlo Wood (carlo-alinoe)]

@Murray Thank you for your comment. I could not find any package for ubuntu that has this fixed. As it is an ABI breakage, as I understand, any project that wants to use C++11 standard (let alone C++17) will want to immediately start to demand and link with the new libxml++; so it's a problem that there isn't a package in ubuntu for that in 2017. Or am I missing something?

[Carlo Wood (carlo-alinoe)]

This still wasn't addressed in 2019...