Control: tag -1 patch pending Hi Tommi, Tommi Vainikainen <tvainika@debian.org> (2019-07-20): > Hi, as a maintainer of flex-old package I'm considering requesting > removing it as obsolete and unmaintained version of flex. kbd-chooser > Build-Depends on flex-old as alternative to current flex. Please build > the package only against current flex by removing references to > flex-old package such as changed in the following patch. > > --- a/debian/control > +++ b/debian/control > @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: debian-installer > Priority: optional > Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org> > Uploaders: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>, Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> > -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), libdebian-installer4-dev (>= 0.41), po-debconf (>= 0.5.0), flex | flex-old , bison, libdebconfclient0-dev (>= 0.49) > +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), libdebian-installer4-dev (>= 0.41), po-debconf (>= 0.5.0), flex, bison, libdebconfclient0-dev (>= 0.49) Oh wow, archaeology time: | commit 795a20074750702ba02abd7881e93f02e3b15c44 | Author: Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org> | Date: Mon Jul 28 11:07:38 2003 +0000 | | - Can build with flex | flex-old | - Prepare for upload | - Patch to avoid trying to load files we can't handle | - Changed my email address to mckinstry@debian.org | | r3727 Just pushed a commit to master to take care of it, thanks. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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