On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 01:33:36 +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > Julien Cristau wrote: > >> Another reason would be because it is somehow > >> an unannounced (i.e. not in debian/patches) patch to upstream sources. > >> > > I don't understand that. > > The explanation of Lintian tag patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff > summarizes my point. > Yeah, I disagree with that one as well… :)
Anyway, if you build-dep on autotools-dev, copy the files before the build, and remove them on clean, you don't get any lintian warning and get the benefit of config.* updates. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
