Paul Wise <[email protected]> writes:

> From [1]:

>   - Automake 2.0 will drop support for the long-deprecated 'configure.in'
>     name for the Autoconf input file.  You are advised to start using the
>     recommended name 'configure.ac' instead, ASAP.

> I would suggest the following plan for Debian & lintian:

> Introduce a pedantic warning about this as soon as possible. 

> Progressively upgrade it over the jessie release to a warning.

Note that this only applies to Automake, so we'll need to be sure that
Automake is in use (in other words, I think packages that just use
Autoconf without Automake, like INN or OpenAFS, aren't affected).
Checking for the presence of Makefile.am at the top level should be
reasonably reliable.

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


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