tag 306838 sarge
thanks

Sorry for the delay in replying. I had a duff procmailrc rule that 
misfiled a lot of email.

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:29:06PM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote:

> When building 'jargon-text' on i386/testing,
> I get the following error:
> 
> # Turn into plain text
> elinks -dump -dump-width 79 -no-numbering 1 -no-references 1 \
> jargon-web.html >jargon.txt
> ERROR at cmdline.c:96: Unknown option -no-references
> make[1]: *** [jargon.txt] Error 3
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/jargon-text-4.4.7'
> make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
> 
> With the attached patch 'jargon-text' can be compiled.

Ah, but it looks dreadful if you use the latest elinks.

This FTBFS will go away when elinks 0.10.4-3 reaches "testing"... but 
your patch means that there's going to be a bug raised because it will 
then FTBFS into a nice-looking text file.

Filing an FTBFS on an "architecture: all" package that contains only a 
plain text file, and then doing a zero-day NMU within 48 hours is not a 
nice thing to do. It's not that important a package to warrant such 
urgency.

The correct long-term fix for this bug is to build-depend on the right 
version of elinks (which ought to enter testing in a few days). If 
elinks 0.10.4 doesn't enter testing, your NMU package will be the one in 
sarge.

-- 
Paul Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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