Package: newsboat
Version: 2.21-1.5
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu lunar ubuntu-patch

Hi Nikos,

In Ubuntu, we've found that newsboat fails to build from source in some
environments because passing -Werror -Wall, gcc cannot detect that a
particular pointer won't be used before initialization:

[...]
In member function ‘__dt_base ’,
    inlined from ‘fetch_feed’ at src/ocnewsapi.cpp:288:1:
/usr/include/c++/12/bits/unique_ptr.h:396:24: error: ‘response’ may be used uninitialized [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
  396 |           get_deleter()(std::move(__ptr));
      |                        ^
src/ocnewsapi.cpp: In member function ‘fetch_feed’:
src/ocnewsapi.cpp:202:22: note: ‘response’ was declared here
  202 |         json_object* response;
      |                      ^
lto1: all warnings being treated as errors
make[3]: *** [/tmp/cc4iQyn6.mk:218: /tmp/cctiXKcc.ltrans72.ltrans.o] Error 1
[...]

This is probably only an issue when building with LTO enabled as well.

Anyway, it's a false-positive and rather than spending more than 2 seconds
thinking about pointers in C++, I patched the package in Ubuntu to skip this
particular warning flag.  Please see the attached patch for your consideration.

Thanks,

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
newsboat, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1033633@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org> (supplier of updated newsboat package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:57:55 +0200
Source: newsboat
Architecture: source
Version: 2.36-1.2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Nikos Tsipinakis <nikos@tsipinakis.com>
Changed-By: Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>
Closes: 1033633 1114221
Changes:
 newsboat (2.36-1.2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Non-maintainer upload
   * Work around Curl 8.16.0 curl_proxytype issue (Closes: #1114221)
   * Build with -Wno-error to prevent FTBFS (Closes: #1033633)
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