Re: Bug#808917: address@hidden: Bug#808917: m4: FTBFS: FAIL: test-update-copyright.sh]

[Santiago Vila]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 01:47:57PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 24 Dec 2015 19:04, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > Fortunately, it has been easy to diagnose and fix: New perl (5.22)
> > makes test-update-copyright.sh to give a deprecation warning because
> > there are unescaped braces in build-aux/update-copyright.
> > The warning message makes the test to fail, which in turn
> > makes the Debian package build to fail.
> 
> this file is part of gnulib and is already fixed:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?h=841d0dcfa8103235836a1aeb0c1ad657f43ade85

Glad to know.

> the person building the release just needs to update their gnulib snap
> next time they roll a tarball.  hopefully they aren't using Debian as
> the gnulib snap there is ancient ;).

Sorry, but I don't understand your last sentence at all.

The Debian m4 package is made from the last officially released m4
tarball, namely, m4-1.4.17.tar.xz. In general, we don't make our own
tarballs, and definitely not for the m4 package.

If this fails for us, it will fail for everybody using m4 1.4.17 and
perl 5.22.

So I would suggest that m4 1.4.18 is released soon.

Thanks.