On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 01:47:57PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 24 Dec 2015 19:04, Santiago Vila wrote: > > Fortunately, it has been easy to diagnose and fix: New perl (5.22) > > makes test-update-copyright.sh to give a deprecation warning because > > there are unescaped braces in build-aux/update-copyright. > > The warning message makes the test to fail, which in turn > > makes the Debian package build to fail. > > this file is part of gnulib and is already fixed: > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?h=841d0dcfa8103235836a1aeb0c1ad657f43ade85
Glad to know. > the person building the release just needs to update their gnulib snap > next time they roll a tarball. hopefully they aren't using Debian as > the gnulib snap there is ancient ;). Sorry, but I don't understand your last sentence at all. The Debian m4 package is made from the last officially released m4 tarball, namely, m4-1.4.17.tar.xz. In general, we don't make our own tarballs, and definitely not for the m4 package. If this fails for us, it will fail for everybody using m4 1.4.17 and perl 5.22. So I would suggest that m4 1.4.18 is released soon. Thanks.
