Package: gnome-common
Version: 2.28.0-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
File: /usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh

Whilst trying to build a copy of yelp from git:

  Running automake-1.11...
  automake-1.11: unrecognized option `--force'.
  automake-1.11: Try `/usr/bin/automake-1.11 --help' for more information.

This causes the build to fail.  automake-1.9 doesn't have the --force
option either.  In fact, AFAICT, automake-1.7 doesn't even have this
option.  I've attached a patch to remove this option, since it doesn't
seem like any reasonably recent version of automake supports it at all.

Transcript:

  lakeview no % automake-1.11 --force
  automake-1.11: unrecognized option `--force'.
  automake-1.11: Try `/usr/bin/automake-1.11 --help' for more information.
  lakeview no % automake-1.9 --force 
  automake-1.9: unrecognized option `--force'
  automake-1.9: Try `/usr/bin/automake-1.9 --help' for more information.
  lakeview no % automake-1.7 --force
  automake-1.7: unrecognized option `--force'
  automake-1.7: Try `/usr/bin/automake-1.7 --help' for more information.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-common depends on:
ii  autoconf                      2.65-4     automatic configure script builder
ii  automake                      1:1.11.1-1 A tool for generating GNU Standard
ii  gettext                       0.17-10    GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool                      0.40.6-2   Utility scripts for internationali
ii  libtool                       2.2.6b-2   Generic library support script
ii  pkg-config                    0.22-1     manage compile and link flags for 

gnome-common recommends no packages.

gnome-common suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
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diff -ur gnome-common.old/macros2/gnome-autogen.sh gnome-common-2.28.0/macros2/gnome-autogen.sh
--- gnome-common.old/macros2/gnome-autogen.sh	2010-03-06 23:03:05.000000000 +0000
+++ gnome-common-2.28.0/macros2/gnome-autogen.sh	2010-03-06 23:03:24.000000000 +0000
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@
           cp -pf INSTALL INSTALL.autogen_bak
         fi
 	if [ $REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION != 1.4 ]; then
-	    $AUTOMAKE --gnu --add-missing --force --copy -Wno-portability || exit 1
+	    $AUTOMAKE --gnu --add-missing --copy -Wno-portability || exit 1
 	else
 	    $AUTOMAKE --gnu --add-missing --copy || exit 1
 	fi

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