Bug#1074976: fweb: ftbfs with GCC-14

From	Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.rc
Subject	Bug#1074976: fweb: ftbfs with GCC-14
Date	2025-09-12 10:50 +0200
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Hi Hilmar,

Am Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 12:17:25AM +0200 schrieb Preuße, Hilmar:
> > Today fweb was a candidate for the Bug of the Day[1] and thus I checked
> > this bug.  I'm positively convinced that if we want to keep the package
> > inside Debian than it makes sense to do so inside the TeX team.  Thus
> > I've created a repository in this team space[2].
> 
> Thanks for that. However I'm not a programmer and I'm not eager to maintain
> a piece a software, which is considered to be dead in upstream, as I
> probably will never be able to address upstream bugs. I would need help here
> and I guess I can't expect that other people do the job.

I'm fine putting adding my name to Uploaders.  IMHO the thing is simple:
If we will be successfully in packaging the latest version with a decent
amount of effort, we can do so.  Otherwise it might make sense to remove
the package from Debian, IMHO.
 
> > I also think we should base the packaging on the latest upstream version.
> > So I checked the Homepage[3] where I actually found the statement
> > 
> >     FWEB was updated to version 1.70 in 2023
> After logging in using your google account, one gets a file, which says
> "beta" in the name:
> 
> hille@rasppi3:~ $ ls -l fweb-1.70-beta.tar.gz
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 hille hille 3423018 Sep 11 10:54 fweb-1.70-beta.tar.gz
> 
> As said: the new version uses cmake, so the Debian part needs probably
> redone anyway.
> 
> I can try to package the new version, but don't expect to much.

If you could import

   gbp import-orig --pristine-tar fweb_1.70~beta.orig.tar.gz

and push I'd volunteer to have a detailed look into it.  But feel free
to go beyond this if you are interested.

Kind regards
   Andreas.

PS: BTW, I have no good idea how to proceed with dvi2ps-fontdata.
    I think it would be easiest to merge all binary packages into
    one.  If you have a better plan, feel free to implement it.




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