Bug#749911: libcurses-perl: FTBFS on hurd-i386: outdated c-gnu.h

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Pino,

Pino Toscano wrote:
> The problem is that the "hints" header c-gnu.h, provided by the Debian
> patch libcurses-perl_hurd1.debdiff, is not up-to-date w.r.t. the
> changes done upstream between 1.28 and 1.31 to the "hints" headers.
> 
> Attached there is an updated version of the hurd patch, which allows
> libcurses-perl to build again. Would it be possible to forward it
> upstream, so this header will need less Debian-specific handling?

Without having looked at it and just based on your description: Is
there a chance that neither we nor upstream will have to ship that
file and keep it uptodate, but that we build-depend on something on
hurd-i386 only and we just have to "#include" that?

		Regards, Axel
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