On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 14:32:45 +0100 Christoph Biedl <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.5.49 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > While improving the gnuift package (upload pending), I came across this > lintian warning: > > W: gnuift source: outdated-autotools-helper-file config.guess 2004-03-12 > (...) > N: For packages using debhelper, the tools from the dh-autoreconf package > N: should handle this issue. (...) > > Now config.guess is indeed that old, however my packaging depends on > debhelper 10 which depends on autotools-dev and dh-autoreconf package. > So all packages required to deal with the situation are available at > build time, and it seems the above warning is a false alarm. > > Can you please review the check? My suggestion is to mute this warning > if there's a build-dependency on debhelper (>= 10~). If however this > still is an issue, the text needs a rewording since I have no idea how > to proceed then. > > Christoph > > > [...]
I am considering to just remove the check - all packages using the debhelper sequence (regardless of compat) will by default run a tool to update config.guess / config.sub. It would have false negatives for packages that do not use the sequencer, but our current detection method is fairly ad-hoc and not in anyway reliable. Any concerns from other lintian maintainers, or should I "just do it"? ~Niels
