On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:41:41AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > I used pbuilder; I don't think using sbuild would have caused a > difference, but I'll try it for the sake of completeness later. > > > Given some of the buildd's have hit it too, perhaps something in > > build-essentials or something else at some point caused automake > > and autoconf to be added for some reason. Maybe sbuild is related. > > No idea yet. > > Frankly, I don't see which buildds have seen this (yet): > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=elinks&suite=sid > > > Thanks for the help though. This was the first FTBFS package I > > encountered in squeeze so far, and the fact it really isn't one is great. > > Well, this is still an irritating bug. The package is supposed to > build even on an unclean environment (at least with auto* for elinks, > this holds). A patch for this would be welcome; I'll try to look at > it and create one.
Wouldn't something as simple as 'Build-Conflict: automake autoconf' do it? Perhaps not the most elegant, but certainly too the point. After all some people have automake on their system and would try to build things that don't like a particular version of automake, so packages sometimes conflict. Build-conflicts would be nice to avoid, but at least until a better solution is found, it would be better than nothing and avoid more bugs being reported. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
