Bug#932560: vile: Don't build against flex-old

2019-07-21 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 04:49:48AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 03:01:57PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 01:10:19PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > >Actually it's debatable whether flex "new" is maintained. > > > > I did a test build against the

Bug#932560: vile: Don't build against flex-old

2019-07-21 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 03:01:57PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 01:10:19PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >Actually it's debatable whether flex "new" is maintained. > > I did a test build against the current version (2.6.4), and it no longer has > the issue[0] which caused

Bug#932560: vile: Don't build against flex-old

2019-07-20 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 01:10:19PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: >Actually it's debatable whether flex "new" is maintained. I did a test build against the current version (2.6.4), and it no longer has the issue[0] which caused me to revert to flex-old some time ago. Some brief testing of a handful

Bug#932560: vile: Don't build against flex-old

2019-07-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
28:20 PM | Subject: Bug#932560: vile: Don't build against flex-old | Source: vile | Severity: normal | | Hi, as a maintainer of flex-old package I'm considering requesting | removing it as obsolete and unmaintained version of flex. Your | package Build-Depends on flex-old. Please update the packa

Bug#932560: vile: Don't build against flex-old

2019-07-20 Thread Tommi Vainikainen
Source: vile Severity: normal Hi, as a maintainer of flex-old package I'm considering requesting removing it as obsolete and unmaintained version of flex. Your package Build-Depends on flex-old. Please update the package build procedures to build e.g. with current flex (from package `flex`)