[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#840393: mensis: FTBFS with newly released fontforge

[Vasudev Kamath]

Source: mensis
Severity: serious
User: pkg-fonts-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: fontforge-transition

Dear Maintainer,

mensis fails to build from source with fontforge version 20161005 from
experimental. It fails in the configure step with following error

checking fontforge/basics.h usability... no
checking fontforge/basics.h presence... no
checking for fontforge/basics.h... no
You must install the include files for fontforge
before building mensis.
debian/rules:29: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_configure' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_configure] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
debian/rules:22: recipe for target 'build' failed
make: *** [build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

The full buildlog is available at ¹. New version of fontforge is already in
experimental. We plan to upload the newer version to unstable in about a week
time. If you need any further help please feel free to contact us. (Fonts team).


¹ https://angband.pl/tmp/ff11/failed/mensis_amd64-2016-10-10T23:46:00Z.build

Cheers,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)