+++ Jeroen van Aart [2015-08-27 15:37 -0700]: > On 08/27/2015 01:20 AM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> >3) control/rules file: what about using dh-autoreconf instead of > >autotools-dev? > > Would I have to use dh-autoreconf? I tried it but it causes some > build errors I can't seem to fix. As far as can see it's not a > requirement and things have worked fine using autotools-dev. This page explains why it is a good thing (but also, as you say, not an actual requirement yet): https://wiki.debian.org/Autoreconf It also gives some clues for things to fix if you get errors. So it is good practice for a package to be autoreconfable as that means that it will build on more architectures, and new architectures correctly. But if you cannot easily fix it this is not a reason to delay upload (but you should probably tell upstream that their autofoo is broken/outdated). Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
