Bug#580190: ncurses: needs private autoconf version to generate configure

2010-05-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 4 May 2010, Sven Joachim wrote: BTW, both autoconf-2.52-20081225 and autoconf-2.52-20100320 fail to build in a UTF-8 locale. I did notice that recently, as I was setting up a new machine (thanks for the reminder). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-islan

Bug#580190: ncurses: needs private autoconf version to generate configure

2010-05-04 Thread Sven Joachim
retitle 580190 ncurses: needs unpackaged autoconf version to generate configure thanks On 2010-05-04 10:57 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Tue, 4 May 2010, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> Source: ncurses >> Version: 5.7+20100313-2 >> >> It is not possible to regenerate the configure script with a Debia

Bug#580190: ncurses: needs private autoconf version to generate configure

2010-05-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 4 May 2010, Sven Joachim wrote: Source: ncurses Version: 5.7+20100313-2 It is not possible to regenerate the configure script with a Debian packaged version of autoconf, since upstream relies on private patched autoconf versions¹. If we ever need to patch configure.in, we're screwed:

Bug#580190: ncurses: needs private autoconf version to generate configure

2010-05-04 Thread Sven Joachim
Source: ncurses Version: 5.7+20100313-2 It is not possible to regenerate the configure script with a Debian packaged version of autoconf, since upstream relies on private patched autoconf versions¹. If we ever need to patch configure.in, we're screwed: , | % autoconf && ./configure | configu