Re: New make is breaking several packages
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:24:14 +0100, Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> said:
> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>> Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hopefully this will work on both versions, but again I don't have
>>> easy access to an old make to test it. There's also the
>>> suggestion elsewhere in the thread to put the script in a make
>>> variable instead.
>>
>> I really think that the maintainers of a central package like make,
>> be it upstream or you,
> Sorry that i didn't check this - I thought that you, Daniel, were
> the make maintainer (thanks Adeodato). The rest of my statement
> still holds,
>> should consider such a change thoroughly and in fact test
>> alternatives *before* the release or upload.
I generally do not respond to such clieless inanities, but I
am feeling generous today. What on earth makes you think that POSIX
compliance was not thought about thoroughly? Or did you make that
asserion up out of thin air?
And this bit about testing displays a distinct lack of
experience about real work testing experiences; in fact, the new make
works just fine on all my packages, and did not have any deleterious
bahviour change for them -- this is like 30 or so source packages.
>> And a sarge or even woody pbuilder chroot is just a couple of
>> commands away. Probably you can even install sarge's make_...deb
>> in a sid or etch chroot.
More inanity, which I shall ignore.
> But now I should add that they should also communicate the
> alternatives for writing Makefiles that work with old and new makes.
> NEWS.gz and NEWS.Debian.gz both have an entry about the change, both
> point to the info file (to two different nodes that I cannot find
> with that exact names), and at the place where I think I'm referred
> to only the new behavior is explained...
This shall get into the next upload.
BTW, this is "UNSTABLE". If you can't deal with changes in
behaviour of unstable right when we are in a high development phase,
run Sarge. Or stop the pontification.
manoj
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