Bug#842293: proftpd-dfsg: Running dh_autoreconf (& dh_autoreconf_clean) fails

[Hilmar Preuße]

Source: proftpd-dfsg
Version: 1.3.5a-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

this issue was found during working on #836759. proftpd needs to run
dh_autoreconf (& dh_autoreconf_clean) during configure and clean stage
(see [1]). Simply introducing the commands as described gives an FTBFS
as the confiure script fails to generate from configure.in. For this a
patch is provided (attached). Unfortunately the resulting configure
script does not work as expected; the build fails later on.

This is an issue, which needs to be fixed in upstream. I did not check
1.3.6~rc2, but I'm afraid it has the same issue.

Hilmar alias Mattia

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Autoreconf#debhelper_packages
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
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