Package: autoconf Version: 2.69-14 Severity: normal In the autoreconf(1) man page:
-i, --install copy missing auxiliary files However, when AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION is used, autoreconf runs autopoint, which wants to override existing files, and fails if existing files do not have the same contents as the autopoint files: autopoint: File ABOUT-NLS has been locally modified. autopoint: File config.rpath has been locally modified. autopoint: File m4/iconv.m4 has been locally modified. autopoint: File po/Makefile.in.in has been locally modified. autopoint: File po/Rules-quot has been locally modified. autopoint: File po/en@boldquot.header has been locally modified. autopoint: File po/en@quot.header has been locally modified. autopoint: File po/insert-header.sin has been locally modified. autopoint: File po/remove-potcdate.sin has been locally modified. autopoint: *** Some files have been locally modified. Not overwriting them because --force has not been specified. For your convenience, you find the local modifications in the file '/tmp/arBTaNwR/gt73Yphm/autopoint.diff'. autopoint: *** Stop. autoreconf: autopoint failed with exit status: 1 This "error" should not be fatal for autoreconf. As a workaround, in such a project (here, the current Mutt master), it seems that AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION may not be necessary. But if AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION is not used, autoreconf warns: autoreconf: configure.ac: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used, but not AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages autoconf depends on: ii debianutils 4.11.2 ii m4 1.4.18-5 ii perl 5.32.1-2 Versions of packages autoconf recommends: ii automake [automaken] 1:1.16.3-2 Versions of packages autoconf suggests: ii autoconf-archive 20190106-2.1+local1 ii autoconf-doc 2.69-14 ii gettext 0.21-4 ii gnu-standards 2010.03.11-1.1 ii libtool 2.4.6-15+local1 -- no debconf information -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)