Bug#994424: spice-vdagent FTBFS: error: ‘g_memdup’ is deprecated: Use 'g_memdup2' instead [-Werror=deprecated-declarations]

[Helmut Grohne]

Source: spice-vdagent
Version: 0.20.0-2
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs

spice-vdagent fails to build from source in unstable. A non-parallel
build ends as follows:

| gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I./src -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -I/usr/include/libdrm -I/usr/include/spice-1 -pthread -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0 -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 -I/usr/include/at-spi2-atk/2.0 -I/usr/include/at-spi-2.0 -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/fribidi -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/uuid -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I./src -DUDSCS_NO_SERVER -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -Werror -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -c -o src/vdagent/spice_vdagent-x11-randr.o `test -f 'src/vdagent/x11-randr.c' || echo './'`src/vdagent/x11-randr.c
| src/vdagent/x11-randr.c: In function ‘vdagent_x11_set_monitor_config’:
| src/vdagent/x11-randr.c:1007:21: error: ‘g_memdup’ is deprecated: Use 'g_memdup2' instead [-Werror=deprecated-declarations]
| 1007 | g_memdup(mon_config, config_size(mon_config->num_of_monitors));
| | ^~~~~~~~
| In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:82,
| from src/vdagent/x11-randr.c:25:
| /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gstrfuncs.h:257:23: note: declared here
| 257 | gpointer g_memdup (gconstpointer mem,
| | ^~~~~~~~
| cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
| make[1]: *** [Makefile:1184: src/vdagent/spice_vdagent-x11-randr.o] Error 1
| make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
| dh_auto_build: error: make -j1 returned exit code 2
| make: *** [debian/rules:18: build] Error 25
| dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build subprocess returned exit status 2

Helmut