Re: Help transition to gettext 0.15
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 08:38:05PM -0300, Damián Viano wrote:
> > Thanks, but there are several problems:
> > * Your pbuilder environment is not clean, so you were not able
> > to build packages which Build-Conflicts any flavour of automake,
> > like gtoaster.
>
> Yes, this is in fact an issue, I've tested, some of those failures on
> clean pbuilders, but didn't save a log :-/ gtoaster, in particular
> builded fine.
>
> I didn't considered this very harmful, since IIUC buildd don't have a full
> clean environment when building, so if a package need a particular version of
> automake is should use the versioned commands and depend on the versioned
> version of automake, am I wrong in this?
No, you are right, but this is not a reason to not try rebuilding buggy
packages ;)
[...]
> > * You did not rebuild packages which Build-Depends-Indep: gettext
>
> Really? I certainly thought I did... why do you think I didn't?
>
> > It would IMO be nice to rebuild packages in a clean environment; I put
> > the list of packages at http://people.debian.org/~barbier/tmp/gettext.list
> > if someone can rebuild these packages.
>
> Hmm... in fact, this list seems the same I used
> http://lug.fi.uba.ar/~des/gettext_0.15/rdep
My bad, I made a mistake, sorry.
> > > The bugs I've seen from this rebuilt are mostly 3:
> > > - #386487: FTBFS: aclocal: macro `AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' required but not
> > > defined
> > > - #385235: gettext 0.15 causes build failures in multiple packages
> > > - some about @MKINSTALLDIRS@ failures, which was previously being
> > > defined in AM_GNU_GETTEXT and now it's not
> >
> > Yes it seems that there are very few bugs, this is good news.
> > Did you file bugs for all the failures you found?
>
> I did, at least for those I considered that weren't created by my environment
>
> Note that some other FTBFS have been spawning here(#386261) and there(#386437)
> on packages not depending on gettext, but that seems to be from this transition
> also... I haven't checked them thoroughly though, only a search for
> MKINSTALLDIRS in bts.turmzimmer.net.
Thanks again.
Denis
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