app-misc/egads gives the following QA errors: * QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices which may compile * fine but exhibit random runtime failures. * unix/server.c:328: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules * unix/server.c:550: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules * unix/server.c:594: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules * unix/server.c:620: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules * unix/server.c:776: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules * unix/server.c:777: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules * unix/server.c:778: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules * unix/server.c:779: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules * unix/server.c:902: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules * unix/server.c:908: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules * procout.c:12: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules * procout.c:19: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules * procout.c:28: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules * procout.c:39: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules * procout.c:46: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules * procout.c:55: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules * unix/client.c:18: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules * unix/client.c:64: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules * Please do not file a Gentoo bug and instead report the above QA * issues directly to the upstream developers of this software. * Homepage: http://www.securesoftware.com/download_egads.htm When visiting the upstream homepage it gets directed to a company website. Search on google didn't give any more information about a new website. Reproducible: Always
Possible to use this as a replacement for purpose? don't see an ebuild for it. http://sourceforge.net/projects/prngd/files/ egad seems to have only been alpha software and not developed actively in many years. http://www.secureprogramming.com/?action=view&feature=links&linkid=99 directs to a link for download that is no longer there. Above link is the same page referenced in the ebuild.
The fact that nobody seems to care, I guess it's better to let treecleaners handle it. If someone starts screaming we can still put the replacement in (although that one is beta and no new release in 3 years).
Robin, do you still want to maintain this package? The ebuild is in a very bad condition, upstream is dead last version from 2004: http://web.archive.org/web/20041019221127/http://www.securesoftware.com:80/download_egads.htm
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=fb8013d3521d8c7d31a1d2bc3eaad9ef3faf99f8 commit fb8013d3521d8c7d31a1d2bc3eaad9ef3faf99f8 Author: Pascal Jäger <pascal.jaeger@leimstift.de> AuthorDate: 2022-10-23 07:16:58 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-10-31 17:39:47 +0000 app-misc/egads: revbump, make build clang16 compatible Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/312983 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/870853 Signed-off-by: Pascal Jäger <pascal.jaeger@leimstift.de> Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/27910 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> ...egads-0.9.5-r1.ebuild => egads-0.9.5-r2.ebuild} | 27 +++++++++++++++------- .../egads-0.9.5-make-build-work-with-clang16.patch | 16 +++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
