Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> writes: > Sandro Tosi wrote: > >> I also see that there are several changes performed directly in the >> upstream code, such as autotools/configure/make and friends, > > Yes. But note that those had been made before too. I only updated > the autotools files (again) because the current ones were quite aged > and dearly in need of being updated. Those were not "patched" in the > sense of editing the file with changes but updated whole by using the > current autotools to create new versions of those files from the > included source files. (The source being the configure.ac and > Makefile.am files.)
Did you consider using dh-autoreconf or dh --with autotools_dev? >> Addenda, taken from lintian output after build: >> >> I: time source: debian-watch-file-is-missing >> is it possible to add it? does it make sense for a GNU project? > > Up to date lintian does not give me that message. You need to add the --info option to get Info level messages. >> W: time: hardening-no-fortify-functions usr/bin/time >> did you consider enable the hardening flags? > > That is a brand new lintian warning and did not exist when I built the > package. So the answer is no that I did not consider it. It wasn't > an item to be considered at that time. I am skeptical that time would > gain value by using them. But I am not opposed to adding them. > > However I am using the debhelper build system. Shouldn't it be doing > this automatically there? Isn't that the purpose of using such a > build system so that standardized behaviors are implemented uniformly > across everything all at once? > > How does one enable hardening flags when using the dh build system? Debhelper compat level 9 makes this automatic with a recent dpkg-dev. (If I'm not mistaken.) >> P: time: no-homepage-field >> can you please add it? > > Up to date lintian does not give me that message. This is a Pedantic message, use the --pedantic option to enable these. -- Regards, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/874nq913k9....@szonett.ki.iif.hu