Re: member with constructor not allowed in union

[Anthony DeRobertis]

[ We probably want to cc the debian BTS on this ]

On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 03:42 PM, Richard B. Kreckel wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Since this ugly C++ problem was reported several have 
> happened.  I would
> like to ask whether there are actual plans to fix this?

Bug 130914 (see <http://bugs.debian.org/130914>) contains a 
suggestion on what to do about this. It involves using an older 
skeleton file, with minor changes.

Debian *could* do this. It would not break versioning because 
it'd just use the debian package revision part.

However, that's up to the maintainer (cc'd). Or eventually 
someone doing a NMU. Etc.

> Please note, that due to this bug many C++ projects are 
> somewhat in limbo
> (Openoffice comes to mind) since they cannot build unless manually
> downgrading to bison-1.29.  The problem also hits the upcoming Debian
> woody because it contains bison-1.32,

Serious bugs are release critical. Bison is required to build 
such essentials as gcc. I seriously doubt woody will release 
without bison, so hopefully the bug will be fixed!