On 01/30/2014 05:01 PM, Stephen Oberholtzer wrote: > Package: cvs2svn > Version: 2.4.0 > Severity: serious > Tags: patch > Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) > > Dear Maintainer, > > I hope I'm doing this correctly. > > The cvs2svn package fails to build from source with recent versions of rcs > due to a failed internal test. This is caused by the rcs v5.9 'co' command > deprecating '-V' in favor of '--version'. When cvs2svn executes 'co -V' to > test for its existence, co outputs a warning on stderr, which cvs2svn > mistakes for a failure. > > Attached is a patch that corrects this problem, so that the package builds.
I am the upstream maintainer of cvs2svn. The change that you have proposed was made in cvs2svn "trunk" in December 2013. So I agree that it is OK. If it would be helpful, I could make an upstream release from the current trunk version (i.e., including this change). Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
