Your message dated Fri, 17 May 2019 19:46:00 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#928889: debhelper: dh_autoreconf says "sh: 1:
build-aux/git-version-gen: not found"
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Package: debhelper
Version: 12.1.1
Hello Niels.
I tried using compat version 12 in package "hello" and this is what happened:
sh: 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: not found
sh: 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: not found
sh: 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: not found
sh: 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: not found
sh: 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: not found
Is this normal/expected/safe?
I'd like to see it documented somewhere.
Thanks.
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On Mon, 13 May 2019 19:23:27 +0200 Santiago Vila <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 04:57:00PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
>
> > > I tried using compat version 12 in package "hello" and this is what
> > > happened:
> >
> > For reference/FYI, I suspect this will happen already at compat 10 or
> > later (I noted that hello in sid uses compat 9 and compat 10 is the
> > first to use dh_autoreconf by default).
>
> Yes, indeed.
>
Ack, thanks for confirming.
> > I think this is because of two things:
> >
> > 1) The source does not include build-aux/git-version-gen
> > 2) The configure.ac references build-aux/git-version-gen and appears
> > to use it unconditionally[1]
> >
> > So when dh_autoreconf does its job of regenerating the build scripts
> > from configure.ac, then it will trigger those warnings because of the
> > above. I.e. this is a "hello"-specific issue.
> >
> > [...]
> I tried the third option (skip dh_autoreconf), then I realized that
> debhelper passes options to ./configure which the current configure
> script does not understand yet because it's too old.
>
> So I decided to keep compat version 9 for now. Next step should be
> to ask upstream hello for a new release using updated tools, as I believe
> the initial weird message I reported is not common in other packages.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
>
Ok. I will be closing this bug as it appears to be an issue specific to
hello's configure.ac / configure scripts.
Thanks,
~Niels
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