Bug#368363: [Parted-maintainers] Bug#368363: parted - FTBFS: autopoint: *** cvs program not found

[Harley D. Eades III]

Otavio Salvador <otavio at debian.org> writes:

> Sven Luther <sven.luther at wanadoo.fr> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 05:05:26PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> >> Package: parted
> >> Version: 1.7.0-1
> >> Severity: serious
> >> 
> >> There was an error while trying to autobuild your package:
> >> 
> >> > Automatic build of parted_1.7.0-1 on debian-31 by sbuild/s390 85
> >> [...]
> >> > dpatch  cat-all  >>patch-stampT
> >> > mv -f patch-stampT patch-stamp
> >> > ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.8 AUTOMAKE=automake-1.8 autoreconf -f -i
> >> > autopoint: *** cvs program not found
> >> > autopoint: *** Stop.
> >> > autoreconf: autopoint failed with exit status: 1
> >> > make: *** [autotools-update-stamp] Error 1
> >> > ******************************************************************************
> >> > Build finished at 20060521-1023
> >> > FAILED [dpkg-buildpackage died]
> >
> > Strange, since the parted repository is now under svn anyway.
> 
> Any idea why this is happening?
autogen.sh still uses CVS to get files needed for compiling.  Like the
*.po files IIRC.  This would be nice to change to svn so out only
depends on one versioning system.  But, for now just install cvs and
she should work.

Cheers
Harley