Bug#595829: Bug 595829: mozvoikko: FTBFS in squeeze: mozVoikko.hxx:23:18: error: nspr.h:, No such file or directory

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 00:37 +0100, peter green wrote:
> libxul.pc and libxul-unstable.pc contain Requires: nspr >= 4.8.6 . 
> However xulrunner-dev only has an unversioned dependency on libnspr4-dev 
> and the version of libnspr4-dev in squeeze is only 4.8.4-2 . This causes 
> "pkg-config --cflags libxul-unstable" and "pkg-config --cflags libxul" 
> to fail in squeeze (they work fine in sid).
> 
> This appears to the cause of the mozvoikko build failure and I have 
> confirmed that upgrading libnspr4-dev and libnspr4-0d in my squeeze 
> chroot to the sid versions makes mozvoikko build.
> 
> ccing debian-release for thier opinion on how this relates to the freeze 
> (the simplest way to fix the FTBFS would be to let the new nspr into 
> squeeze)

The maintainer asked us not to do that, and is fixing the problem in
xulrunner-dev; see
http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2010/09/msg00524.html

Regards,

Adam