Bug#736481: nettoe: FTBFS due to test suite failures

Aníbal Monsalve Salazar anibal at debian.org
Fri Mar 28 22:20:12 UTC 2014


On Wed, 2014-03-26 23:26:26 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <anibal at debian.org> writes:
>> On Wed, 2014-03-26 14:51:08 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>>> Changing options passed to ./configure depending on the build
>>> environment looks fairly wrong to me.
>>
>> The objective of ./configure is to change the build/compile settings
>> dependending on the environment.
> 
> However source packages in Debian should *not* change depending on the
> environment they are built in. Passing different options to
> ./configure depending on the environment does the exact opposite...
> 
>> If you object Dejan's patch, there is another approach. To set TERM
>> to to some value like linux, xterm, unknow, etc, to pass `make
>> check-TESTS`. But that could be wrong.
>>
>> Mats Erik Andersson, upstream author of Nettoe said the "FTBFS is
>> caused by a build environment lacking a defined TERM". The way to
>> tell ./configure that TERM is not defined is to pass
>> --without-terminfo to it.
>>
>> We decided that it was better to pass --without-terminfo to
>> ./configure than to set TERM to something that could be incorrect.
> 
> Well, then just always pass --without-terminfo to it?

Okay, I'll do that. I'll prepare another NMU.

Cheers.
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