bug#7148: 24.0.50; fails to compile packages flim and lookup

[Glenn Morris]

Glenn Morris wrote:

> It's the same issue. Is anyone reporting this to the maintainers of
> these Debian packages? They need to update their code.

It was classified as "wishlist"?

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588189

Old-style backquotes are going away. Perhaps the ability to compile
these files will be restored for 24.1, perhaps it won't. Why not just
fix the old code? It will have to be done at some point.