On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 12:26 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Personally, I've already started converting every package I maintain that > uses Autoconf to using dh_autoreconf during the build. Likewise. > I wonder if that isn't a better long-term solution for Debian. It is, but for DFSG item 2 reasons rather than this. As a solution for this in Debian and outside Debian I don't think it scales as well. Within Debian we would need to make everything use debhelper and make debhelper do it by default, neither of which are likely. There are quite a few distros, including proprietary ones, so I don't think this approach scales outside of Debian either. > config.guess/config.sub have caused the most frequent problems, but > we've had problems in the past from old versions of Libtool as well, > and dh_autoreconf resolves the entire problem (at least for packages > for which it works). Thanks, I guess I should prepare a patch for the libtool artefacts too. > Paul, separately, if you haven't already, could you request that the > Lintian checks for outdated config.guess/config.sub be updated for > whatever version you need for arm64? We could also recommend > dh_autoreconf at the same time, which might resolve a lot of these > problems going forward. Thanks for the suggestion, filed: http://bugs.debian.org/690014 -- bye, pabs http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/
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