Re: [ddccontrol-devel] Debian packaging, take 2

[Nicolas B. <ni...@bo...>]

Hi Roberto,

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I finally made some time to work on packaging for Debian.  I have the
> package almost complete, however the build has numerous warnings.  For
> example:
> 
>  i486-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src -I..
> -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -I/usr/include/libxml2 -Wall -g -O2
> -Wall -DDATADIR=\"/usr/share/ddccontrol-db\" -DBINDIR=\"/usr/bin\" -MT
> ddcci.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/ddcci.Tpo -c ddcci.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o
> .libs/ddcci.o
> ddcci.c: In function 'i2c_write':
> ddcci.c:273: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'dumphex'
> differ
> in signedness
> ddcci.c:305: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'dumphex'
> differ
> in signedness
> ddcci.c: In function 'i2c_read':
> ddcci.c:343: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'dumphex'
> differ
> in signedness
> ddcci.c:378: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'dumphex'
> differ
> in signedness
> ddcci.c: In function 'ddcci_read_edid':
> ddcci.c:795: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of
> 'snprintf' differ in signedness
> 
> This seems to me to be partly because gcc-4.0 is more strict.  Since
> this is the default compiler in Sid I really need to resolve these
> before I feel comfortable trying to have the package uploaded.

Thank you I know about these problems with gcc 4.0, I fixed them in CVS. 
I think I will release ddccontrol 0.4.2 soon, as I fixed other problems. 
I just need to find some time to do the work.

> Additionally, gcc-4.1 will shortly become the default for Debian Sid and
> I think that will only create more problems.

It shouldn't. Minor versions (for example gcc 3.3 and 3.4) are usually 
not a big problem.

Best regards,

Nicolas