X-Debbugs-CC: jonas@jones.dk bigon@debian.org mckinstry@debian.org
Hi all,
A new snapshot of gnulib is currently in Experimental. I have rebuilt all
reverse dependencies and so far only libtool would FTBFS. Actually sollya is
also failing to build but that was due to a separate issue (
https://bugs.debian.org/947720).
I only enabled a very small portion of testsuites in the new upload. The full
test ("megatest" for all) would take really long time (several hours on my
workstation) and eventually fail. We need more work to get the package into
better shape.
Thanks,
Boyuan Yang
On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:01:41 -0400 Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org> wrote:
> X-Debbugs-CC: jonas@jones.dk bigon@debian.org
>
> I have played around and prepared a new packaging release in the
experimental
> branch based on the codebase on Oct 2019:
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/gnulib/tree/experimental
>
> The issue is that newer gnulib requires newer gettext (>= 0.20) to work,
which
> is not yet available in Debian. Though it's possible to patch the source
code
> and loosen the version requirement, I haven't really test what will happen.
>
> Best,
> Boyuan Yang
>
> On Fri, 07 Dec 2018 17:41:30 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> wrote:
> > Control: tag -1 help
> >
> > Hi Laurent,
> >
> > Quoting Laurent Bigonville (2018-12-05 09:29:03)
> > > Current version is quite old (2014) and some other packages seems to
> > > require a newer version (see enchant bug #861141)
> > >
> > > Would it be possible to upgrade to a newer version?
> >
> > Yes, gnulib is too old for recent enchant - in fact that is the very
> > reason I wanted to pour some love on gnulib.
> >
> > Unfortunately gnulib packaging is in a bad shape: It comes with a
> > testsuite but that is skipped - I am quite worried that a major upgrade
> > may introduce new bugs, and therefore want to first get the testsuite
> > enabled, learn which parts of the testsuite succeeds for the old 2014
> > release, and only then upgrade to have a reasonable judgement if the
> > upgrade is sane to introduce to Debian unstable.
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