[Pkg-shadow-devel] out of my depth

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Ok, the new copy on mentors

https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/shadow/shadow_4.4-1.dsc

is not yet ready (at least three patches need to still be fixed) but
may be close.

-serge

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 08:48:46PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Hm, ok.  At some point in the past debuild was failing because of
> mismatches in the *.gmo files, and being binary was causing some
> trouble, but I'll go ahead and try that again.
> 
> thanks.
> 
> -serge
> 
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 06:40:14PM -0700, Nicolas François wrote:
> > Hi Serge,
> > 
> > I used make distcheck,  but that will be the same wrt gmo.
> > I think you should leave them in the tar ball. The intent is/was not to
> > force users to have the msgfmt tool when compiling (this is not specific to
> > shadow). Also the gmo are portable.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > -- 
> > Nekral
> > 
> > On Sunday, September 18, 2016, Serge E. Hallyn <serge at hallyn.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 07:14:02PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > > > Hey guys,
> > > >
> > > > so the *main* thing that has been causing me to give up every time
> > > > I've tried to do a new release has been po/*.  In particular, a
> > > > 'make dist' always makes po/*.gmo re-appear.  Apparently,
> > > >
> > > > autogen.sh calls autoreconf which calls autopoint, which creates
> > > > m4/po.m4, which creates po/Makefile.in.in, which creates a makefile
> > > > which ends up calling
> > > >
> > > >          cd $(srcdir) && rm -f $${lang}.gmo && $(GMSGFMT) -c
> > > --statistics -o t-$${lang}.gmo $${lang}.po && mv t-$${lang}.gmo $${lang}.gmo
> > > >
> > > > etc.  The *.gmo files are binary ones, which we don't want to be
> > > > shipping iiuc.  So - what is an ignorant packager to do?  It seems
> > > > like there must be an obvious flag to add to autoreconf in autogen.sh,
> > > > but I can't find it.
> > > >
> > > > Should the 'make dist' target be updated to rm po/*.gmo before
> > > > generating the tarball?
> > > >
> > > > -serge
> > >
> > > FWIW adding
> > >
> > > +dist-hook:
> > > +       rm -f $(distdir)/po/*.gmo
> > >
> > > to Makefile.am seems to work.  But is there a better way?
> > >