Bug#529835: loudmouth: FTBFS against gnutls26 >= 2.7.x

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Package: loudmouth
> Version: 1.4.3-2
> Severity: important
> 
> The package's ./configure script is trying to invoke libgnutls-config
> and/or libgnutls-extra-config to search for the gnutls library. Newer
> version of gnutls do not ship these scripts anymore.
> 
> Please use another way to search for the gnutls library, e.g.
> pkg-config or AC_LIB_HAVE_LINKFLAGS or AC_CHECK_FUNCS. For packages
> that already use pkg-config to search for other libraries, pkg-config
> will probably be the simplest way. Debian's gnutls packages have
> shipped the necessary .pc files 0.3.5-1 (June 2006).
> 
> This is going to be a rc bug once gnutls26 2.8 is released and
> uploaded to unstable. The second release candidata of 2.8 (2.7.12) is
> available for testing in Debian/experimental.

There's a patch at
http://groups.google.com/group/loudmouth-dev/browse_thread/thread/9057314cc0864a7e#

Ross, are you aware that the project has changed upstream maintainer / location?

Cheers,
Emilio

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