reopen 417067 thanks On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:50:21AM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > #417067: lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file doesn't apply if > package build-depends on autoconf/automake, > which was filed against the lintian package. > > It has been closed by Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > Their explanation is attached below. If this explanation is > unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate > message then please contact Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> by replying > to this email.
Lintian still reports the same error... Quoting «checks/cruft», line ~57: > # I'm not thrilled with having the automake exception as well, but people > # do depend on autoconf and automake and then use autoreconf to update > # config.guess and config.sub, and automake depends on autotools-dev. > # We may need to allow all the various versioned automake packages, but > # let's hope not. Bad news, I'm afraid ;) Actually, «/usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz» recommends build-depending on a versioned automake, and I think this is what most people do. I understand that you aren't too fond of the automake exception, specially if it involves checking all the versions, but I don't see another way to fix this.
