Re: Debian packages, argtable

[Shachar S. <rsy...@sh...>]

Tom Metro wrote:

> The stable version is of course a couple of versions behind, so I
> think for now, as I'm mostly using the source as a point of reference
> for getting the 0.14 version working under Windows, I'll stick with
> the source distribution.

I just confirmed a small suspicion I had. It seems I tagged 0.15 for
release, but never actually released it. It fixes a tiny problem in
Windows regarding filelist and line termination.

>> Argtable was only added (also by me) to Sid after Sarge was already
>> released, so it won't be in stable. Sorry.
>
> So is it compiled in to the stable package as a static library? I
> noticed it isn't on the dependency list of either stable or unstable
> packages.

That's because it was only added to rsyncrypto as part of the port to
Windows. It will be in the dependency list when 0.16 is uploaded to
debian. 0.13 (latest Sid version) still used getopt_long. As 0.14 only
added Windows support over what 0.13 could do, I didn't find the need to
hurry and upload a new version.

>> I'm the argtable Debian maintainer :-)
>
> Well that'll cut down on finger pointing when getting to the bottom of
> that bug that might be in rsyncrypto or argtable.

I'm only the Debian maintainer, not the upstream. I already sent an
email with a reduced sample to Steward, who is the argtable maintainer,
though. We'll see whether it gets fixed.

>>> Attempting to configure rsyncrypto 0.14 on Debian 3.1 (Sarge/stable) I
>>> see:
>>>
>>>  configure: error: argtable2 not found
>>>  See `config.log' for more details.
>>
>
> Is there a way to get configure to spit out more friendly messages
> when a dependency isn't found? (I guess with most people using binary
> packages these days, there isn't much motivation to improve build
> tools to that level.)

It just told you that argtable2 was not found. What else would you have
configure print?

>> If a mandatory argument...is not given, you get a segfault.
>> I'm not yet sure whether the bug is in argtable or rsyncrypto.
>
>
> Does argtable have a test suite?

No, but I've attached to this email a small program that demonstrates
that this is an argtable bug, not an rsyncrypto bug.

       Shachar