Bug#835833: foxeye: please make the the package autoreconfable
> >I just went to fix a reproducibility issue in foxeye, but I got stuck when > >I couldn't regenerate configure from configure.ac as the autoreconfing > >fails. > > That is pretty much strange since I've added --with autoreconf to the dh > options in debian/rules and ran pbuilder against sid It fails with: https://gist.github.com/lamby/8e3bc22b4cd39cadea4b0d2913e89e2a/raw > fix is pretty simple though - replace version 0.11.5 mentioned in a file > intl/VERSION with newer such as 0.17, then run autopoint -f, then repack > the tarball Great, please go ahead and add all of this to the package so it it runs autoreconf on every build. :) Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-
Bug#835833: foxeye: please make the the package autoreconfable
>I just went to fix a reproducibility issue in foxeye, but I got stuck when >I couldn't regenerate configure from configure.ac as the autoreconfing >fails. That is pretty much strange since I've added --with autoreconf to the dh options in debian/rules and ran pbuilder against sid, then autoreconf did well, only problem was intl/ directory at build stage as newer autotools do not provide $MKINSTALLDIRS variable used by that ancient gettext, the fix is pretty simple though - replace version 0.11.5 mentioned in a file intl/VERSION with newer such as 0.17, then run autopoint -f, then repack the tarball, after that everything goes very smooth. Could you tell what was wrong in your tests, please? Thank you in advance (and thank you for your help in making it better).
Bug#835833: foxeye: please make the the package autoreconfable
Package: foxeye Version: 2.54+dfsg-7 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org, Dear Maintainer, I just went to fix a reproducibility issue in foxeye, but I got stuck when I couldn't regenerate configure from configure.ac as the autoreconfing fails. Even manually patching ./configure (!) does not work as it detects the change and tries to run aclocal-1.14, which does not exist anymore, etc. etc. Regardless of any Debian Policy, I'm certain it would be definitely be better that we could autoreconf packages so that we can actually changes to our source code. :) Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-
