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It is not often that you see a Fedora change proposal for a version of the
distribution that will not be available for 18 months or so, but that
is exactly what was recently posted to the mailing list.
The change targets the C source code in the myriad of packages that the
distribution ships; it would fix code that uses some ancient compatibility
features that were removed by the C99 standard but are still supported by
GCC. As might be guessed from the
long runway proposed, there is quite a bit of work to do to get there.