Bug#390110: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#390110: ftbfs: old xml2po fails, build scripts ignore that

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Max Kellermann (max at duempel.org):
> Package: shadow
> Version: 1:4.0.18.1-3
> 
> I have gnome-doc-utils from sarge (0.1.3-3), since shadow does not set
> a versioned build dependency.  During build, xml2po fails because this
> old version doesn't understand the new style command line syntax.
> This is ignored by shadow's build scripts, because xml2po has a zero
> exit code (I will also file a bug against gnome-doc-utils for this
> one).  Excerpt from the build log:

Well, my first reaction is to wonder whether shadow should really take
care to get around a bug that:

-is first a bug in xml2po
-is fixed in testing and unstable


Indeed, should we support building the version of shadow in etch with
the buildsystem of sarge?

This bug report indeed suggest that we add a versioned build
dependency on gnome-doc-utils. However, the bug is indeed NOT one that
we will fix for etch (shadow is frozen now) and....it is irrelevant
for etch+1 unless one wants to support building etch+1 packahes on
sarge.


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