Re: Bug#809053: xindy FTBFS due to CPPFLAGS containing spaces

[Agustin Martin <agmartin@debian.org>]

2016-01-01 15:34 GMT+01:00 Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>:
> Dear Mattia,
>
>> debian/rules:33: recipe for target 'config.status-with-latex' failed
>
> Indeed, the last NMU has introduced a rather stupid bug.
>
> I have contacted the maintainer for a take over of xindy into the
> Debian TeX Team and have prepared already a new version with
> several other fixes, too.
>
> I am waiting for Jörg's answer before taking any action.

Hi, Norbert, Mattia and Joerg,

For the records, this summer (30/7/15) I also mailed Joerg about
current xindy status, but got no reply. My message might have been
unnoticed and I have been rather busy lately, so I did not retry.

I asked Joerg about current xindy status and suggested him to move
xindy git repo to collab-maint, so others can contribute better.

I also reminded him about xindy still using dpatch and about the
existence of newer upstream versions (up to 2.5.1).

I also had been playing a bit with xindy dpatch->quilt migration and
with upgrades to newer upstream versions (including a fix for a
problem still unaddressed by upstream,
http://sourceforge.net/p/xindy/bugs/57/). As a matter of fact I had
then a fully migrated and upgraded package nearly ready waiting for
Joerg reply.

I would be very happy to help with this all this migration and upgrade
if needed. I am aware that xindy main problem is current clisp status
(not sure if because of clisp itself or because of libsigsegv2), but
apart from fixing this FTBFS, kepping xindy up-to-date, even if only
possible for some arches, would be a good thing.

I have done some things with Emacs lisp, but never worked with clisp
nor common-lisp (apart from xindy styles), so I do not intend to adopt
xindy, at least as single maintainer, although I would not mind as a
co-maintainer, as I use xindy regularly and wrote some of the initial
spanish stuff. I could also help with the perl part if needed.

Best regards,

-- 
Agustin