The announcement of the 1.1.5 release candidates asked the packagers to check 
for packaging issues.  Here are my notes:


Regarding the bugs that I had submitted earlier to the tracker:

1471 (exit code on slon man page) is fixed but I think the code is actually 
wrong.  Calling exit() with negative status is unportable.

1472 (bison/flex) seems OK.

1473, 1474 (files needlessly deleted) is not fixed.


Now additional notes:

- The directory autom4te.cache/ should be removed before packaging.  It should 
probably be cleaned in the distclean target or similar.

- Finding pg_config doesn't work quite as I'd wish.  If I specify 
--with-pgconfigdir, then configure should fail if it's not there, and it 
should not search other locations.  (With multiple PG versions installed, 
this can easily lead to tears.)  I have attached a simple patch for this, 
which you may want to rewrite to be more portable shell-wise.

- configure looks for plpgsql.so during the build but does not actually need 
it during the build.  This is a bit annoying as it requires you to install 
the server package when you don't need it.

- There are a number of compiler warnings (GCC 4.0.3) that might be nice to 
clean up.

- Slony-I-concept.pdf does not build.  The file is truncated after a few 
pages.  Does one need special versions of the tools here?

ps2pdf Slony-I-concept.ps
Error: /undefined in 0,9
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   
%oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   
--nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1121/1686(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:81/200(L)--   
--dict:62/120(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
Current file position is 259628
ESP Ghostscript 815.01: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
make[3]: *** [Slony-I-concept.pdf] Fehler 1

- Building Slony-I-implementation gives the following messages.  The result 
looks OK, but it's a bit scary anyway.

groff -Tlatin1 -U -t -p -ms -mpspic Slony-I-implementation.nr 
>Slony-I-implementation.txt
Slony-I-implementation.nr:31: warning: can't find font `TR'
grotty:Slony-I-implementation.nr:7: character above first line discarded
grotty:Slony-I-implementation.nr:15: X command without `tty:' tag ignored
grotty:Slony-I-implementation.nr:18: X command without `tty:' tag ignored
grotty:Slony-I-implementation.nr:20: X command without `tty:' tag ignored
grotty:figure-2.pic:4354: Unknown color (65535, 65535, 65535) mapped to 
default
grotty:figure-2.pic:4367: Unknown color (65535, 65535, 65535) mapped to 
default
[dozens of times]

- The file HISTORY-1.1 seems to be outdated.  I doubt it's necessary to keep 
it.


Other patches that I needed to apply: (I think I mentioned them before, but 
just for completeness.)

- Patch to disable the search for postgresql.conf.sample

- Patch to disable rpath


Anyway, I think the two critical issues are finding the right pg_config and 
the failing documentation build (which worked a few weeks ago I think...).
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