On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 16:41 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "AW" == Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > AW> The most authoritative thing I can find in the Wiki seems to frown > AW> on the practice of patching configure.ac in the first place: > AW> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/AutoConf > > Toshio already mentioned that this isn't in any way policy; I just > want to reinforce the point that anyone can write anything anywhere in > the wiki that sounds like packaging policy. I understand this, hence the qualified use of 'most authoritative'. > AW> If this is not in fact the agreed policy, I'd expect the agreed > AW> policy to show up more prominently in a Wiki search for > AW> 'autoconf'. :) > > There is no guideline relating to the use of autoconf. The situation > is analogous to the absence of American federal legislation regulating > the acceptable colors used to paint bike sheds. I would say this is an area where consistency of method is important. If discussion has dragged out with no decision being taken that's a shame, but I think it's not wasted effort to try and come up with an agreed and enforced policy for how changes to autotools-managed build scripts should be handled. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
