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=== Wednesday 13th December 2023 ===

==== Fedora Project ====

 * Updated `bluefish` (2.2.14) in Rawhide:
  * Fix use of incompatible pointer types ([[https://sourceforge.net/p/bluefish/code/8991/|upstream rev 8991]])
  * Fix improper use of pointer ([[https://sourceforge.net/p/bluefish/tickets/80/|SourceForge ticket #80]])
 * Updated `perl-IO-AIO` (4.8) in Rawhide to fix use of incompatible pointer type in `configure` test for `fexecve()`:
 . {{{
Fix this error:

conftest.c: In function 'main':
conftest.c:61:27: error: passing argument 2 of 'fexecve' from incompatible pointer type
   61 |    int res = fexecve (-1, "argv", 0);
      |                           ^~~~~~
      |                           |
      |                           char *
In file included from conftest.c:58:
/usr/include/unistd.h:578:43: note: expected 'char * const*' but argument is of type 'char *'
  578 | extern int fexecve (int __fd, char *const __argv[], char *const __envp[])
      |

The incompatible pointer type issue is traditionally a warning but is likely to be an
error in GCC 14. See: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/PortingToModernC

The presence of the issue in the configure test would be likely to result in
failure to detect fexecve() on some systems where it is actually available.

diff -up ./configure.ac.orig ./configure.ac
--- ./configure.ac.orig	2022-09-28 09:21:39.000000000 +0100
+++ ./configure.ac	2023-12-13 09:22:12.070446241 +0000
@@ -80,7 +80,8 @@ AC_CACHE_CHECK(for fexecve, ac_cv_fexecv
 #include <unistd.h>
 int main (void)
 {
-   int res = fexecve (-1, "argv", 0);
+   char *const argv[] = { "foo", "bar", 0 };
+   int res = fexecve (-1, argv, 0);
    return 0;
 }
 ]])],ac_cv_fexecve=yes,ac_cv_fexecve=no)])
diff -up ./configure.orig ./configure
--- ./configure.orig	2022-09-28 09:23:23.000000000 +0100
+++ ./configure	2023-12-13 09:22:43.887161250 +0000
@@ -4762,7 +4762,8 @@ else $as_nop
 #include <unistd.h>
 int main (void)
 {
-   int res = fexecve (-1, "argv", 0);
+   char *const argv[] = { "foo", "bar", 0 };
+   int res = fexecve (-1, argv, 0);
    return 0;
 }
 
}}}

==== Local Packages ====

 * Updated `bluefish` (2.2.14) as per the Fedora version
 * Updated `libxml2` to 2.12.3:
 . Regressions:
  * parser: Fix namespaces redefined from default attributes
 . Build fixes:
  * include: Rename `XML_EMPTY` helper macro
  * include: Move declaration of `xmlInitGlobals`
  * include: Add missing includes
  * include: Move globals from `xmlsave.h` to `parser.h`
  * include: Re-add circular dependency between `tree.h` and `parser.h`
 . I also disabled Xpointer locations support as per the Fedora package; upstream says of this code:
  . This was based on a W3C specification which never got beyond Working Draft status. To my knowledge, there's no software supporting this spec that is still maintained. Be warned that this part of the code base is buggy and had many security issues in the past.
 * Updated `perl-IO-AIO` (4.8) as per the Fedora version
 * Rebuilt `pptp` (1.10.0) to sync with Rawhide
 * Updated `proftpd` (1.3.8a) with an additional C compatibility fix ([[https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/pull/1754|GH#1754]])

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