On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 02:20:19PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 at 06:29:19 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > I've prepared an NMU for gconf (versioned as 3.2.6-4.1) and uploaded > > it to DELAYED/5. > ... > > + * Update gtk-doc.make from gtk-doc-tools 1.27-1, > > + fixing a FTBFS with gtk-doc-tools >= 1.26. (Closes: #876592) > > This seems a reasonable solution. Feel free to reschedule to DELAYED/0.
Thanks, done. > gconf has been dead upstream since about 2010, and is one of the obsolete > packages that the GNOME team are trying to avoid including in buster, > so GNOME maintainers are unlikely to be uploading it any time soon. Buster or not, such FTBFS are creating problems for surprisingly many people right now. Bootstrapping new ports (currently ia64, soon RISC-V) needs stuff building. And this is not only gconf, libgnomecanvas was another example of a library that still has huge reverse dependencies.[1] Similar problems also exist for Debian derivatives that are based on testing or unstable, and that need to be able to (re)build the binaries they ship. Ubuntu 18.04 would be an obvious example for that. >... > FYI, for packages with a sufficiently recent/sane Autotools setup to > be compatible with an autoreconf with current Autotools (which I was > surprised to see seems to include gconf), I think the canonical way to > fix this class of bug is to ensure that dh-autoreconf runs gtkdocize, > either by running upstream's autogen.sh (if it's in the tarball): > > https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gtk3/commit/490e3220dfc976d181aab3e89c34e7a75080d94a > > or by providing a simplified version ourselves: > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/flatpak/commit/d8004c50ffb6c99e20a77873e8cf48967afddfe8 > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/flatpak/commit/8686daaf43a6d5674d1d545435f19b89773790b4 > > That doesn't seem like something that would justify a re-upload, though. Without testing it, all this looks as if it would break dpkg-buildpackage && dpkg-buildpackage Is there anything in plce to ensure that dpkg won't error our due to these modified files when rebuilding the source package? > Thanks, > smcv cu Adrian [1] due to #887673 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
