newsboat-og
- Path: arch/maintained/newsboat-og
- 2026-07-17: both known build failures fixed and published,
pkgrel
3 -> 4, all four arches (x86_64, i486, i686, pentium4).
- This is the user’s own fork (
andreasbaumann/newsboat-og on GitHub,
same author as this project’s maintainer). Fixes for this package are
pushed as upstream commits there first, then wired into the PKGBUILD
as source=() entries pointing at that commit’s .patch URL –
same convention as the pre-existing
newsboat-og-curl-proxytype-cast.patch (commit f2b404c3). Always
check upstream for a fix before writing a local patch by hand.
- Four patches now applied in
prepare(), in this order:
newsboat-og-curl-proxytype-cast.patch (commit f2b404c3c485...)
– pre-existing, unrelated to this session.newsboat-og-json-c-isystem.patch (commit d11e3705b53c...) –
config.sh demotes json-c’s -I include to -isystem after
config.mk is generated (sed -i ... 's/^(DEFINES\+=)-I(...json-c...)/\1
-isystem \2/'), so json-c’s own header warnings (linkhash.h
unused-function) don’t trip this package’s -Werror. This was the
originally-reported json-c build problem.newsboat-og-image-count.patch (commit ae260fcecc78...) –
removes genuinely dead code in src/htmlrenderer.cpp: unsigned
int image_count was declared, incremented once (line ~264,
inside the IMG-tag handling), and never read anywhere – a
leftover counter. Modern GCC’s -Werror=unused-but-set-variable
turns this into a hard error. This is the failure originally
flagged in the 2026-07-07 triage (see “Superseded” below) –
interestingly it only showed up on the x86_64 chroot in this
session’s rebuild (i486/i686/pentium4 built fine even before this
patch was added), so chroots/toolchains differ in how strictly
they apply this warning; fix it regardless since the code really
is dead.newsboat-og-json-hpp-3.11.3.patch (commit 1ab71d889a38...) –
updates the bundled vendor header 3rd-party/json.hpp (nlohmann
JSON, used by src/ttrss_api.cpp/include/ttrss_api.h for the
Tiny Tiny RSS API backend – genuinely compiled, see
mk/mk.deps) from 3.2.0 to 3.11.3. Large diff (~31k lines, it’s
a vendored single-header library) but applied the same way as any
other patch. Not actually required to fix a build error in this
session (build succeeded on x86_64 with just patches 1-3) –
added anyway per explicit maintainer request, likely for
currency/security of the vendored dependency rather than a build
fix.
- Don’t confuse patch 2 (“json-c”, the C JSON library via pkg-config)
with patch 4 (“json.hpp”, the unrelated bundled nlohmann C++ JSON
header) – same word, two unrelated dependencies in this codebase.
- Test-built clean across all four arches via
scripts/repo_build.sh
(0 compile errors on the full patch set). Signed and published all 8
package files (newsboat-og + newsboat-og-debug, x86_64/i486/i686/
pentium4) to the private repo.
Superseded (kept for context)
- Build failure during the 2026-07-07 “build all packages for x86_64”
private-repo release pass (see
repo_release_logs/maintained_newsboat-og.log).
- Real compile error, not dependency-related:
src/htmlrenderer.cpp:91:22:
error: variable 'image_count' set but not used
[-Werror=unused-but-set-variable=]. Same class as memory/modest.md –
a modern GCC’s stricter default warnings-as-errors tripping on old
unused-variable code.
- Not fixed as part of that pass.