On 04/30/2014 10:36 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Package: debian-policy > > It seems that a lot of packages do not use something like > autoreconf during build, and every time someone starts a new > port he has to patches way too many packages to get config.guess > and config.sub updated.
Do you have numbers? There is dh_autotools-dev which works well and should be a default indeed. > I would like that we say that at least config.guess and config.sub > must be updated during the build process and that things like > configure should be regenerated during the build process. Regenerating configure is often a major pita as it often requires additional steps additional to calling auto*. Where possible and if needed there is dh_autoreconf, but even that fails often enough. And forcing people to upgrade configure is a waste of time imho. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
