Jörg Sommer <[email protected]> writes:

> Okay, is it worth to add such a comment to the message, saying cdbs
> users have to build‐depend on autotools-dev, because the recommends of
> cdbs is not enough?

That's the intent of the last sentence of the tag description:

windlord:~> lintian-info -t outdated-autotools-helper-file
N: outdated-autotools-helper-file
N:
N:   The referenced file has a time stamp older than June of 2006 and the
N:   package does not build-depend on autotools-dev or automake and
N:   therefore apparently does not update it. This usually means that the
N:   source package will not build correctly on AVR32, for which a Debian
N:   port is currently in progress, and may not support other newer
N:   architectures.
N:   
N:   Read /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz (from the
N:   autotools-dev package) for information on how to fix this problem.
N:   cdbs will automatically update these files if autotools-dev is
N:   installed during build, but the build dependency on autotools-dev is
N:   still necessary.
N:   
N:   Severity: normal, Certainty: possible

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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