On 8 May 2017 at 23:41, Rene Engelhard wrote: | Hi, | | On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 04:34:27PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > Not when you talk to upstream, as I do as maintainer. Upstream's code may | > well be built against cppunit-config for years to come. | | Why? | | The point is: you (= upstream) already checks for >= 1.12.1. | So you already have pkg-config as a given, so you don't need to check for | cppunit-config as an alternative at all.
I am at work and have no time to argue with you, but I did poke into configure.ac for JAGS and it simply has AM_PATH_CPPUNIT(1.12.1) Methinks that may in fact be an autotools bug that 1.14 is not found. In either event we may now have to manually code around this. | > And I do not believe into Debian-only patches. | | Depending on when the fixed jags will be released and when all the other | packages will be fixed you will need one. LibreOffice 5.4 does NEED >= 1.14 | and I want to avoid using the internal copy if possible. | | That's the only reason why I am after this :-) Sure. Worst case we could park the tests for a bit, but it is preferable to get it built as before. | Doing such things before upstream does and keeping your package building is | one of your duties of a package maintainer. But as said, yeah, getting it | fixed upstream is preferrable. Yep, we're on the same page. Dirk | | Regards, | | Rene -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]
