Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:25:29PM CEST: > > I maintain the cygwin port of findutils, > and am wondering if there is any easier way to change what > PACKAGE_BUGREPORT points to, short of modifying configure.ac and running > autoreconf. I am thinking that changing the reporting address to cygwin > first would allow myself and other cygwin developers to filter out real > upstream bugs from cygwin-specific issues, avoiding some of the confusion > apparent in the mentioned bug-findutils thread. Some food for thought: what if the upstream would like to have more reports actually reach him and not (only) the maintainers, who may add non-portable changes to the "adapted" package, which makes upstream maintenance, umm, "more interesting", because those changes then show up on other systems where they don't work? Say, hypothetically. > Should autoconf provide an easy hook at ./configure time for package > maintainers of various ports to easily change the email address to their > port mailing list instead of the upstream mailing list, comparable to > other hooks like --bindir for changing where the installation takes place? There may be a reason to not make it even easier than it is.. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
