Bug#890703: flex: all amd64 binaries since 2.6.4-1 built with stale skel.c file

2018-02-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Actually, the problem seems to be that my build setup is too clean: it seems not to contain flex. When there is no flex present, we do not regenerate files from *.l files. The solution, or course, is to update the files in the packaged source so we can bootstrap flex. Thanks

Bug#890703: flex: all amd64 binaries since 2.6.4-1 built with stale skel.c file

2018-02-17 Thread James Cowgill
Package: flex Version: 2.6.4-1 Severity: important Hi, I spent some time today looking at why charybdis still fails with newer flex (since it is blocking my mbedtls transition)[1]. I also had a look at why it inexplicably builds with amd64 and fails on all other architectures. I have come to the