Package: netcat-traditional
Version: 1.10-40
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)

The source package `netcat-traditional' does not build, make dies this way:

  $ make linux
  make -e nc  XFLAGS='-DLINUX' STATIC=-static
  make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/build/netcat-1.10'
  gcc -O          -DLINUX -static -o nc netcat.c 
  netcat.c: In function 'helpme':
  netcat.c:1797:16: error: expected ')' before 'DEBIAN_VERSION'
  make[1]: *** [nc] Error 1
  make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/build/netcat-1.10'
  make: *** [linux] Error 2

I am not very familiar with the Debian package build process. In debian/rules
a DFLAGS='... -DDEBIAN_VERSION...' is used, if I try that one, the error ist
the same:

  $ make linux DFLAGS='-DDEBIAN_VERSION="foo"'
  ...
  netcat.c: In function 'helpme':
  netcat.c:1783:3: error: expected ')' before 'foo'
  ...

So maybe DEBIAN_VERSION usually contains some magic to concatenate the strings
with the constant (rather not), or this patch is broken.


Cheers,

        Tech

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) 
(ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages netcat-traditional depends on:
ii  libc6  2.13-35

netcat-traditional recommends no packages.

netcat-traditional suggests no packages.

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