Bug#736481: nettoe: FTBFS due to test suite failures

[Mats Erik Andersson]

Hello there,

> >> Mats Erik Andersson, upstream author of Nettoe said the "FTBFS is
> >> caused by a build environment lacking a defined TERM". The way to
> >> tell ./configure that TERM is not defined is to pass
> >> --without-terminfo to it.
> >>
> >> We decided that it was better to pass --without-terminfo to
> >> ./configure than to set TERM to something that could be incorrect.
> > 
> > Well, then just always pass --without-terminfo to it?
> 
> Okay, I'll do that. I'll prepare another NMU.

Let me point out that I have published a new version
in my capacity as the upstream author, and that I am
also in this very moment beginning to prepare a new
Debian package for 1.5.1-1.

The upstream code has seen a change in "test/terminfo.c"
to always succeed, even if TERM is unset in the environment.
Furthermore, "configure.ac" has been modified to pass an
explicit linking flag, which manages the inteded linking
against libtinfo on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenIndiana.
The first issue takes care of the architecture discrepancies,
and the second issue covers the work-around implemented by
Ubuntu's package maintainer.

Best regards,
  M E Andersson, DM