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

[Sven Luther]

On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0500, Harley D. Eades III wrote:
> 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.

That said, this is during the build of the debian package, which should be run
from already sane-and-auto*-free sources, or something, so it should never
invoke any cvs or svn command.

Friendly,

Sven Luther