#1018231 ITA: ucpp -- embeddable, quick and light C preprocessor

Package:
wnpp
Source:
wnpp
Submitter:
Rene Engelhard
Date:
2026-08-02 10:39:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1018231#5
Date:
2022-08-27 12:55:21 UTC
From:
To:
I intend to orphan the ucpp package.

The package description is:
 A C preprocessor designed to be embeddable, quick, light and fully compliant
 to ISO Standard 9899:1999, aka ISO C99, or simply, C99.

Nowadasys, the LibreOffice SDK works with cpp (and that is done in the
libreoffice packages).
And in LibreOffice 7.5 (bookworm) idlc will be gone completely (and thus also ucpp:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=a8485d558fab53291e2530fd9a1be581c1628deb

https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=ucpp&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1
has 131 installations but it's decreasing. Those is from(old)stable: See
https://packages.debian.org/buster/libreoffice-dev (ucpp) and
https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/libreoffice-dev (ucpp) and
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/libreoffice-dev (cpp)

Regards,

Rene
#1018231#12
Date:
2026-08-02 10:36:29 UTC
From:
To:
I intend to adopt the ucpp package. I will update it and fix the
outstanding issues.