Re: Bug#368363: [Parted-maintainers] Bug#368363: parted - FTBFS: autopoint: *** cvs program not found

[Harley D. Eades III]

Sven Luther <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0500, Harley D. Eades III wrote:
> > Otavio Salvador <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > Sven Luther <address@hidden> writes:
> > > 
> > > > On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 05:05:26PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > > >> Package: parted
> > > >> Version: 1.7.0-1
> > > >> Severity: serious
> > > >> 
> > > >> There was an error while trying to autobuild your package:
> > > >> 
> > > >> > Automatic build of parted_1.7.0-1 on debian-31 by sbuild/s390 85
> > > >> [...]
> > > >> > dpatch  cat-all  >>patch-stampT
> > > >> > mv -f patch-stampT patch-stamp
> > > >> > ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.8 AUTOMAKE=automake-1.8 autoreconf -f -i
> > > >> > autopoint: *** cvs program not found
> > > >> > autopoint: *** Stop.
> > > >> > autoreconf: autopoint failed with exit status: 1
> > > >> > make: *** [autotools-update-stamp] Error 1
> > > >> > ******************************************************************************
> > > >> > Build finished at 20060521-1023
> > > >> > FAILED [dpkg-buildpackage died]
> > > >
> > > > Strange, since the parted repository is now under svn anyway.
> > > 
> > > Any idea why this is happening?
> > autogen.sh still uses CVS to get files needed for compiling.  Like the
> > *.po files IIRC.  This would be nice to change to svn so out only
> > depends on one versioning system.  But, for now just install cvs and
> > she should work.
> 
> That said, this is during the build of the debian package, which should be run
> from already sane-and-auto*-free sources, or something, so it should never
> invoke any cvs or svn command.
Yes you are right.  I didn't notice it was a debian package.  I
responded before I read the entire mail.  My apologizes.