Hi Michael, Stephen, On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Michael Haggerty <mhag...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > On 01/30/2014 05:01 PM, Stephen Oberholtzer wrote: >> Package: cvs2svn >> Version: 2.4.0 >> Severity: serious >> Tags: patch [...] >> The cvs2svn package fails to build from source with recent versions of rcs >> due to a failed internal test. This is caused by the rcs v5.9 'co' command >> deprecating '-V' in favor of '--version'. When cvs2svn executes 'co -V' to >> test for its existence, co outputs a warning on stderr, which cvs2svn >> mistakes for a failure. >> >> Attached is a patch that corrects this problem, so that the package builds. Maybe an other thing changed since then, but last time I tried your patch cvs2svn self-tests still failed.
> I am the upstream maintainer of cvs2svn. The change that you have > proposed was made in cvs2svn "trunk" in December 2013. So I agree that > it is OK. Do you have a list what's changed since 2.4.0 in the trunk? > If it would be helpful, I could make an upstream release from the > current trunk version (i.e., including this change). I'll retry building of cvs2svn with the proposed patch and report back if I get a test failure and its details or simply upload a fixed packaged with that change. You don't have to make a new upstream release if it's not the time yet. Ie not stable enough or just not really tested, etc. Regards, Laszlo/GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
