GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 768569
Uses deprecated gnome-common macros/variables
Last modified: 2018-10-04 14:54:31 UTC
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=829843 gnome-common did a cleanup upstream and deprecated quite a few macros and variables. gnome-doc-utils removal ======================= The gnome-doc-utils build infrastructure was removed completely along with the following macros: GNOME_DOC_INIT [1] GNOME_COMMON_INIT [2] deprecated variables ==================== The following variables used in gnome-autogen.sh have been declared deprecated [3]: REQUIRED_GNOME_DOC_UTILS_VERSION REQUIRED_DOC_COMMON_VERSION USE_COMMON_DOC_BUILD FORBIDDEN_M4MACROS GNOME2_DIR GNOME2_PATH USE_GNOME2_MACROS deprecated macros ================= The following macros have also been declared deprecated: GNOME_COMPILE_WARNINGS [4] GNOME_CXX_WARNINGS [5] Upstream has documentation at [6] with how you can fix your package and why those particular changes were made. The following macros seem to be used in configure.ac: ./configure.ac:GNOME_COMPILE_WARNINGS([maximum]) [1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-common/commit/?id=6684e2fa5 [2] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-common/commit/?id=1f60e9536 [3] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-common/commit/?id=4c8d8ad93 [4] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-common/commit/?id=b57bae0be [5] https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-common/commit/?id=2bffd7e1u [6] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeCommon/Migration
GNOME_COMMON_INIT was removed in bug 729389 or commit 8b3ab9eebf01a89b The reset were removed in commit 1f069d27cbf238c3. Nowadays there's even a Meson build!