Bug#834174: Removal of -Werror=security in GDAL rules is useless

Sebastiaan Couwenberg sebastic at xs4all.nl
Fri Aug 12 20:19:52 UTC 2016


On 08/12/2016 09:50 PM, Even Rouault wrote:
> Le vendredi 12 août 2016 21:39:26, Sebastiaan Couwenberg a écrit :
>> Due to the recent GCC 6/ICU 57/Boost 1.61 transitions there are large
>> number of changed C++ symbols which break the ABI. I am therefore
>> hesitant to upload a new GDAL revision now, I don't want any segfaulting
>> reverse dependencies because of undefined references to the old (now
>> missing) symbols. The change for the above is committed in git, and will
>> be included in the next upload. That will be for GDAL 2.1.2 or if GDAL
>> is rebuilt for another transition and the reverse dependencies are not
>> adversely affected or if they are and we do another transition for GDAL.
> 
> There's certainly no need to do a package rebuild for that. Was just to note 
> that some historical leftover was no longer needed.

A new build is not strictly required, no. The severity of this issue is
not high enough. But I don't like outstanding bugreports, and I won't be
able to close this one as soon as I'd like with a new upload.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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