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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Recent Prometheus bugs in php-pear are caused by missing scripts
  • Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 20:00:14 +0200

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 04:42:43PM +0200, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:13:33AM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> > Quoting Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>:
> >
> > > There seems to be missing stuff even in devel. Casting pear-rdf from
> > > devel has exactly the same effect. There's neither a BUILD in pear-rdf,
> > > nor some override of default_build. Either of those two is required.
> >
> > Then the damage may be greater than what was discussed here:
> > http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11842. I don't have access
> > right now,
>
> The three files mentioned in that bug are back (also in stable-rc). So
> this is something different. I tried syncing to the version right before
> I remove uppercase stuff (since that was where the PEAR* files were
> lost), but that didn't have any more either.

Here's the catch: the pear_mk script is plain broken, it generates
broken spells.
a) it doesn't create a BUILD file, which is required (containing 'true')
b) it doesn't create or update the HISTORY file

This means all spells created with this script will be broken.

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Arwed v. Merkatz Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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