Hi, William Ricker wrote: > I note the packagers have patched the Makefile.PL to run the > standalone tests against the library edition, since standalone edition > is not distributed -- unclear to me if that was a Debian decision or > Ubuntu?
Not shipping the standalone edition is a Debian decision and it's like this for a long time, at least since I took over its maintainership inside the Debian Perl Team in 2013. According to debian/changelog it's like that since the second upload of (back then) ack-grep in 2007. It just does not make sense to ship a packaged version of the standalone version: * That's just the library version with all required libraries appeneded: You don't need the same functionality twice. * Maintaining such a standalone version is as painful as maintaining a package with a statically linked C program: You need to rebuild the package for every security update in any of its recursive reverse dependencies. You definitely _don't_ want that. And accordingly I don't think that not building the standalone has any relation to this issue. > Perhaps the patch needs re-tweaking to work in latest > If the package passes on Sid, is the problem isolated into Ubuntu > re-packaging of either ack or autopkgtest ? There is no diff from Debian to Ubuntu in ack according to the version numbers on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ack (*) -- so I also think that the issue is in the way Ubuntu does autopkgtests, either in their autopkgtest package or in their setup. (*) Although there is not listed which version would have been in artful, so I can say that for sure. But according to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/artful/+source/ack/+changelog it would have been 2.18-2 which is the same version as currently in Debian Testing and Unstable. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, Debian Perl Team member, Debian ack maintainer `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1707979 Title: No ack or ack-grep in artful. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ack/+bug/1707979/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
