[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#750090: missing build-depends: autopoint

[Niels Thykier]

Hi Serge and Thomas,

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@Thomas: Serge kindly requested more information from you (see Serge's
full mail below).  For now I have tagged the bug "moreinfo" and
"unreproducible" based on this.  You may want to remove them when you
follow up.

~Niels


On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 00:37:49 +0000 Serge Hallyn
<serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Looking at http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/autopoint-Invocation.html
> it does seem that autopoint could be needed to build shadow, since
> a AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION does show up in configure.in.
> 
> The autopoint dependency is probably usually satisfied due to
> a Recommends in gettext, which in turn shadow does build-dep on.
> However since it is only a recommends, this won't always be the
> case.
> 
> Nevertheless, when I dpkg -r autopoint on a wheezy chroot and
> build shadow, the package succesfully builds.
> 
> Thomas, could you please tell us exactly how the build broke
> for you without autopoint?  I.e show us the full build logs.
> 
>