On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 04:57:00PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: > > I tried using compat version 12 in package "hello" and this is what > > happened: > > For reference/FYI, I suspect this will happen already at compat 10 or > later (I noted that hello in sid uses compat 9 and compat 10 is the > first to use dh_autoreconf by default).
Yes, indeed. > I think this is because of two things: > > 1) The source does not include build-aux/git-version-gen > 2) The configure.ac references build-aux/git-version-gen and appears > to use it unconditionally[1] > > So when dh_autoreconf does its job of regenerating the build scripts > from configure.ac, then it will trigger those warnings because of the > above. I.e. this is a "hello"-specific issue. > > Not sure what the proper fix is here. Options include: > > * Have upstream include build-aux/git-version-gen in the source > - Though it may need git and a git repo to work properly, so this > might only make sense from the PoV of ensuring that we have the > complete source of the build scripts. > > * Patch configure.ac to *not* rely on the build-aux/git-version-gen > script > > * Skip reconfiguration by overriding dh_autoreconf (see [2] as an > example). I tried the third option (skip dh_autoreconf), then I realized that debhelper passes options to ./configure which the current configure script does not understand yet because it's too old. So I decided to keep compat version 9 for now. Next step should be to ask upstream hello for a new release using updated tools, as I believe the initial weird message I reported is not common in other packages. Thanks a lot.
