Package: src:libtool
Version: 2.5.4-7
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Dear libtool maintainer,
this package currently uses debhelper with an ad-hoc sequence of steps
in d/rules. This long list of steps can be shortened and greatly
simplified by using the standard dh sequence.
You can find a MR that changes `d/rules` to use the standard dh sequence at:
https://salsa.debian.org/mckinstry/libtool/-/merge_requests/2
According to diffoscope, the generated binary packages are identical to
the current ones. (Except for one checksum in the `.gnu_debuglink` ELF
section of `libltdl.so.7.3.3`.) Additional simplifications are possible,
but they would break bit-for-bit replicability with the current binaries.
Please note that the block dealing with making the package clean for a
second in-place build is no longer there. It was broken and hard to
integrate as-is in the new code. I will submit a new bug describing the
issue, together with an associated patch that restores and fixes that
functionality on top of this MR.
Kind regards,
--
Gioele Barabucci
