Hi,

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:48:07AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> According to http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=&pkg=emacs21,
> building of emacs after the last NMU failed on most architectures.  I'm
> confused, though, because the NMU was in January according to the
> changelog, and makes the package is uninstallable on most architectures.
> This is because emacs21-bin-common depends on
> emacs21-common=${Source-Version}, and emacs21-common has now the NMU
> version number.  But this should have shown up much earlier, it's like
> as if the NMU was not in fact in the archive the last months.

I did the code changes in January (and then filed the bug), but only
uploaded it to unstable on April 29th (after it sat for a while in
DELAYED) without updating the changelog for the date.

> As to the actual failure, it doesn't look as if it should be related to
> the NMU patch, and this is some other strange thing.  On i386, it fails
> with 
> 
> i486-linux-gnu-gcc -c -DUSE_LUCID -Demacs -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DUSE_LUCID  -I. 
> -I/build/buildd/emacs21-21.4a/src -D_BSD_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -g -O2 
> -DPURESIZE=5000000 -I../src /build/buildd/emacs21-21.4a/lwlib/lwlib.c
> /build/buildd/emacs21-21.4a/lwlib/lwlib.c:52:27: error: X11/Xaw/Paned.h: No 
> such file or directory
> make[5]: *** [lwlib.o] Error 1
> 
> Now Paned.h is in libxaw8-dev, which is installed as an indirect
> build-dependency.  Maybe this has to do with the XOrg transition, the
> headers have changed there location:
>
> usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xaw/Paned.h                         libdevel/libxaw8-dev
> usr/include/X11/Xaw/Paned.h                               x11/libxaw-headers
 
Yes, see #365597.

> And maybe the underlying bug is that xaw3dg-dev still depends on
> "libxaw8-dev | libxaw7-dev | libxaw6-dev" but should have dropped
> libxaw8-dev? 

Maybe.

I don't feel qualified to change emacs21's Build-Depends in a second NMU
really, but I guess it should just Build-Depen on libxaw7-dev?


Michael

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