https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227972 --- Comment #6 from Michael Schwendt (Fedora Packager Sponsors Group) <bugs.michael@xxxxxxx> --- The Packaging Guidelines are unlikely to require that ever. That is because it cannot be guaranteed that rebuilding autotools won't break anything "silently", such as succeeding at rebuilding the files but ending up with something that's broken under the hood (and no longer sets up the source code in a sane way). One can mess with the autotools template files quite a lot, with variables, with functions, and with include fragments (also in questionable ways) to run into incompatibilities over the years. There's an extra risk, if upstream has generated the files in unknown ways. However, rebuilding the files is not forbidden. There are enough packages, which do rebuild them either with or without patching them. In other cases, the files are missing and need to be generated. As a package maintainer, you need to figure out yourself whether rebuilding the files serves any purpose *and* works. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are always notified about changes to this product and component _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-review