Bug#529909: sipsak: Uses deprecated gnutls-config script to search for libgnutls(-extra/-openssl)

[Andreas Metzler]

tags 529909 patch
thanks

On 2009-05-22 Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
> Package: sipsak
> Version: 0.9.6-2 
> Severity: normal

> The package's ./configure script is trying to invoke libgnutls-config
> and/or libgnutls-extra-config to search for the gnutls library.
[...]
> Please use another way to search for the gnutls library, e.g.
> pkg-config or AC_LIB_HAVE_LINKFLAGS or AC_CHECK_FUNCS.
[...]

Patch attached. (sans adding pkg-config to build-depends and rerunning
autotools.)

> This package does not actually FTBFS with newer versions of gnutls.
> Instead it is simply not liked against gnutls.

> For sipsak I am not sure whether this good or bad, since I get this
> warning when building against "old" gnutls:

> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libgnutls.so.26 could be avoided if "debian/sipsak/usr/bin/sipsak" were not uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).
[...]

I think it is ok, since sipsak is using the gnutls openssl wrapper.
cu andreas
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