Hi Zack, On 24/09/20 at 16:41 -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: > Hi Lucas, > > I'm managing the long-overdue release of Autoconf 2.70, we just put > out a second beta and I am thinking that it would be interesting to do > a Debian archive rebuild with it and see what breaks. I was advised > to contact you. > > The release announcement is at > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2020-09/msg00006.html and > the tarball + signature are at > https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.69c.tar.xz{,.sig}. > > What can I do to help make this happen? N.B. I am not a Debian developer. Nice! What I would need is a custom autoconf package, either in Debian experimental or in a private repo, that would act as a drop-in replacement for the current autoconf package. Then I would do two archive rebuilds: - one with vanilla Debian - one with vanilla Debian + a script that installs this package (or configures apt so that this package gets installed) There are some example scripts in https://salsa.debian.org/lucas/collab-qa-tools/-/tree/master/modes Do you think that you can work on providing such a package (and a corresponding script)? Lucas
