[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#277354: shadow: Needs more recent config.{sub,guess} for k*BSD

[Santiago Vila]

On Sun, 8 May 2005, Martin Quinson wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> said:
> > Package: shadow
> > Version: 4.0.3-30.1
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Tags: upstream
> >
> > This package used to compile ok under GNU/kFreeBSD, but it does not anymore,
> > so we have to create a "forked" version:
> >
> > http://ftp.gnuab.org/debian/pool/main/s/shadow
> >
> > It would be nice if you could update config.guess and config.sub to
> > the most recent version and/or tell the author to do the same.
> 
> Is it really the only change needed to make k*BSD people happy? If so, you
> will be please to read this in the changelog:
> 
> shadow (1:4.0.3-32) unstable; urgency=low
> [...]
>   * Modified debian/rules for "Calling GNU configure properly", see
>     /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz
> [...]
>   * GNU config automated update: config.sub (20010907 to 20050422),
>     config.guess (20010904 to 20050422)
> 
>  -- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>  Tue,  3 May 2005 11:53:12 +0200
>  
>  
> Is it enough to close the bug?

Yes, but not because of the changelog entry, but because it says the truth :-)
(There have been cases where the maintainer by mistake says it does
something without actually doing so). In this case, see:

http://ftp.gnuab.org/debian/pool/main/s/shadow

Version 4.0.3-32, uploaded last night, compiled out of the box.