[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#384631: shadow currently FTBFS

[Nicolas François]

Package: shadow
Version: 1:4.0.18.1-1
Severity: serious
Justification: no longer builds from source

Dear shadow maintainers,

Since the upgrade of gettext to 0.15, shadow fails to build from source.

12:20:02 < bubulle> if [ -d ./m4 ]; then m4="-I m4"; fi; if [ -e ./aclocal.m4
                    ]; then cd . && aclocal-1.7 $m4; fi
12:20:05 < bubulle> aclocal: macro `AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' required but not defined
12:20:08 < bubulle> aclocal: macro `AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' required but not defined
12:20:10 < bubulle> make: *** [debian/stamp-autotools-files] Erreur 1

A patch is currently worked on. And the next release should be released
soon.

The plan is to use automake 1.9. This needs to change debian/control and
the variables DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_* in debian/rules.

In po/Makefile.in.in, MKINSTALLDIRS also needs to be set to "@install_sh@
-d" (maybe upstream should update the Makefile.in.in file in later
releases.

What I still don't know is whether the resulting package will depend on
gettext 0.15 and automake 1.9.

Kind Regards,
-- 
Nekral