On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:28:41 +0000 Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> wrote:
> Umm, have a closer look. ;-) > > The horror gets worse - the current soci CVS (according to SF) appears > to retain a fully working autotools build system, with the other > changes. BUT - and this is a biggy - I use SF a lot and my other VCS > systems at SF continue to work, but anonymous CVS checkout fails > completely. > > debcheckout did used to work for soci, I remember testing it. It no > longer works. > > Something has been broken in the upstream configuration at SF, which is > restricted to current admins for the project. So, we're stuck with > upstream after all. If there are to be efforts to get soci 3.0.1 into > Debian, upstream is where things need to start. Someone upstream > appears to have had a bad time with autotools and has tried to reinvent > the wheel. Ugly. > > All the necessary URL's are available in the package and in the PTS. > > It stinks, I know, but screen-scraping 600Kb of data from a web based > VCS interface is not a good use of either my time or yours. > > Besides, a patch set that size scares me almost as much as the work > required to fix the current mess. Interestingly anonymous CVS works fine for me... And it seems to build fine. But yes I agree, it would be quite a large patch, and most likely very hard to manage, so I guess upstream probably is the best place to go, as you say. Regards, Bradley Smith -- Bradley Smith <b...@brad-smith.co.uk> GPG: 0xC718D347
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