On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > severity 506022 important > severity 508230 important > thanks > > Hi, > > When trying to run autoreconf during a package build, there was > a FTBS error; since just depending on autoconf and automake was not > enough. Surprisingly, autopoint fails without cvs being installed, for > no earlhly reason: nothing on this machine has anything to do with cvs.
Not surprisingly: If autopoint is implemented using cvs, that's a good reason for autopoint to fail if cvs is not present. > Either the CVS dependency should be removed, or cvs should be > depended upon. as it stands, autopoint is unusable on installation, and > arguably the lack of dependency when a dependency exists breaks > autoreconf. (which would be critical, if the logic holds). This is from /usr/share/doc/gettext/README.Debian which apparently few people bothers to read: [...] a package which uses autopoint in its build process *must* have the cvs package in its Build-Depends field or else it will have a FTBFS-type bug. So please move the higher severities to whatever package is using autopoint without having a build-depends: cvs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
