Re: Bug-Squashing Party #7 report

[Sebastian Rittau <srittau@jroger.in-berlin.de>]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:39:56PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:

> bison:
>         Broken yacc compatibility mode (-y),

A patch is in the BTS.

>         and serious problems with C++ support.

It seems that the best solution to this problem is downgrading bison to
1.30 if upstream doesn't find a solution.

> canna:
>         Overwrites a conffile in its postinst.

Seems straight forward to fix.

> menu:
>         Missing build-dependency on jade. Probably not RC - menu has no
>         build-dependencies at all.

Somebody seems to have downgraded this.

> scalable-cyrfonts:
>         Missing build-dependency on m4.

Trivial.

> tetex-base:
>         Licensing problems?

Seems to be bogus.

>         Necessary subdirectories of /var/spool/texmf not created on
>         install.

Trivial.

> unifont:
>         Missing build-dependencies.

Patch included in bug report.

 - Sebastian