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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0005138 | GNUnet | build process | public | 2017-09-24 11:10 | 2019-02-28 10:17 |
| Reporter | nikita | Assigned To | nikita | Due Date | |
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Target Version | 0.11.0 | Fixed in Version | 0.11.0 | ||
| Summary | 0005138: decide on the minimal required Texinfo version | ||||
| Description | Someone using Debian 8 reported they are using texlive 5.2. Now texinfo-5.2 has a release date of 2013-09-26 19:17. GNU Guix and GuixSD uses Texinfo 6.5 (which is what I've been using to build the documentation). Gentoo, another reported problem system, has marked texinfo-6.3 as stable, 6.4 + 6.5 are still "unstable" in their dictionary. 6.3 was released on 2016-09-10 16:31. I think it's unreasonable to demand support for a software released in 2013 with 1 major release number increase between then and now. However we also need to consider universal support. I can build with 4.13a, 5.2, 6.3, 6.4 and 6.5 on my system, but we need to set a minimal requirement. (--Ideally this is achieved with votes of people (packagers / package contributors to operating systems) on the minimal versions.--) We also need Texlive, which is currently just assuming the full distribution of Texlive and on my end in version "2017". | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| I forgot that we already have 'Texlive >= 2012' for gnunet-bcd. Wheezy Debian (oldstable) is still on some 2012 version of Texlive. Personally I think encouraging to keep very old software versions around is not very good use, but I'll try to check the documentation building against Texlive-2012. Should work out alright. As per feedback and discussion in different places, trying to support Texinfo-5.2 is the temporary decision. Only building will show if this holds to be true. | |
| My general opinion is requiring Debian stable is generally totally acceptable, and in exceptions we can even require something more recent (if justified). | |
| Yes, I agree. The only action left on this bug is now to provide a check in the build system for it. | |
| > The only action left on this bug is now to provide a check in the build system for it. Is this fixed? I can't recall if I fixed it or not. | |
| The check in the build system is still missing. | |
| I am confident that https://gnunet.org/git/gnunet.git/commit/?id=62355a754eb4f3e8aa9e9e514ae1bb0e28f51 is a (first) solution to fix the "detect version" requirement. In general: WTF? comparing string to integer in m4, which was my first attempt, as a result of grep + cut + --version and "5.2", is way too annoying. Why don't we have min/max versions in the MISSING_PROG macro? Annoyance^10. If this doesn't work, file new bugs. | |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-24 11:10 | nikita | New Issue | |
| 2017-09-24 11:13 | nikita | Description Updated | |
| 2017-09-24 11:14 | nikita | Description Updated | |
| 2017-09-25 08:48 | nikita | Note Added: 0012434 | |
| 2017-09-25 08:48 | nikita | Assigned To | => nikita |
| 2017-09-25 08:48 | nikita | Status | new => assigned |
| 2017-09-25 08:49 | nikita | Status | assigned => acknowledged |
| 2017-09-25 17:40 | nikita | Summary | package contributors votes needed to decide on the minimal required Texinfo + Texlive version => decide on the minimal required Texinfo version |
| 2017-09-25 17:40 | nikita | Description Updated | |
| 2017-09-27 14:10 | nikita | Status | acknowledged => confirmed |
| 2017-09-27 18:20 | nikita | Relationship added | child of 0005141 |
| 2017-10-02 16:57 | nikita | Status | confirmed => assigned |
| 2017-10-04 13:27 | Christian Grothoff | Note Added: 0012462 | |
| 2017-10-08 14:10 | nikita | Note Added: 0012467 | |
| 2018-01-21 12:54 | nikita | Note Added: 0012816 | |
| 2018-06-26 06:27 | Christian Grothoff | Note Added: 0013078 | |
| 2018-10-30 18:03 | nikita | Status | assigned => resolved |
| 2018-10-30 18:03 | nikita | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2018-10-30 18:03 | nikita | Fixed in Version | => Git master |
| 2018-10-30 18:03 | nikita | Note Added: 0013299 | |
| 2019-02-12 08:20 | Christian Grothoff | Target Version | => 0.11.0 |
| 2019-02-16 10:54 | Christian Grothoff | Fixed in Version | Git master => 0.11.0 |
| 2019-02-28 10:17 | Christian Grothoff | Status | resolved => closed |