Bug#572198: gnome-common: Doesn't detect automake 1.11

Tom Parker palfrey at tevp.net
Tue Mar 2 10:24:14 UTC 2010


Package: gnome-common
Version: 2.20.0-2
Severity: important

checking for automake >= 1.9...
   testing automake-1.10... not found.
   testing automake-1.9... not found.
***Error***: You must have automake >= 1.9 installed
   to build twitux.  Download the appropriate package for
   from your distribution or get the source tarball at
     http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake/automake-1.9.tar.gz

palfrey at missfun:[~/src/twitux] apt-cache policy automake <=====
automake:
   Installed: 1:1.11.1-1
   Candidate: 1:1.11.1-1
   Version table:
  *** 1:1.11.1-1 0
         650 http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/main Packages
         600 http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
      1:1.10.1-3 0
         700 http://ftp.uk.debian.org stable/main Packages

I have automake 1.11 installed, but not 1.10 or 1.09, and gnome-common 
fails to detect it as a valid alternate

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
   APT prefers stable
   APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), 
(500, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-common depends on:
ii  autoconf                      2.65-4     automatic configure script 
builder
ii  automake [automaken]          1:1.11.1-1 A tool for generating GNU 
Standard
ii  automake1.7 [automaken]       1.7.9-9    A tool for generating GNU 
Standard
ii  gettext                       0.17-9     GNU Internationalization 
utilities
ii  intltool                      0.40.6-2   Utility scripts for 
internationali
ii  libtool                       2.2.6b-2   Generic library support script
ii  pkg-config                    0.22-1     manage compile and link 
flags for

gnome-common recommends no packages.

gnome-common suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information






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