Source: debian-installer
Version: 20190118
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
In/via #823881 it was noticed that mmd(1) had a buggy heuristic
check that can fail the build. On the d-i side this was added with
a prefixing comment:
# Temporary workaround for #823881:
export MTOOLS_SKIP_CHECK=1
Whilst mtools in Debian now has a new maintainer (!) and upstream
are pretty good about releases these days, I think this "skip" is
still needed, thus we should update the seemingly misleading
comment to match or at least otherwise clarify the situation.
Patch attached.
Regards,
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diff --git a/build/Makefile b/build/Makefile
index 67b5db0..05089ce 100644
--- a/build/Makefile
+++ b/build/Makefile
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
# `-- vmlinuz
#
-# Temporary workaround for #823881:
+# Skip heuristic check in mmd(1) that can fail the build (see #823881).
export MTOOLS_SKIP_CHECK=1
# Add to PATH so dpkg will always work, and so local programs will be found.
