On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:59:25PM +1030, Ron wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:18:55AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 12:39:08AM +1030, Ron wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Sorry to be late to the party on this one, but could we please
> > > change this to instead use:
> > > 
> > >  AM_MAINTAINER_MODE([enabled])
> > > 
> > > This gives the same default behaviour as removing it (which I
> > > agree is desirable), but still enables people to use the
> > > --disable-maintainer-mode option to configure, if they really
> > > want to switch it off again (which I do for the package builds
> > > since we don't really want a borked timestamp regenerating these
> > > files unexpectedly in the source package).
> > 
> > where do you get the busted timestamps from? that seems to be the bug that
> > should get fixed.
 
[...]

> > btw, I suspect that sooner or later the X.Org repos will all be switched
> > (server already is) so you need to bring up the issue on the xorg-devel list
> > too.
> 
> That may not be a problem for the folk maintaining the X packages, they
> have their own boilerplate and methodology for pulling packages from git
> and I think they do just regenerate this stuff at every build.
> 
> Even so, it probably would be nice to use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE([enabled])
> everywhere that this is being changed.  It takes nothing away from the
> preferred default, but leaves people with choice if they do need it.

Patch is out for libwacom. Do you need the same change in xf86-input-wacom
then or is that handled by the X team?

Cheers,
   Peter

> > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:34:26AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > > > We want libwacom to react to changes in Makefile.am's
> > > > 
> > > > Long writeup:
> > > > http://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2011/09/08/am_maintainer_mode-is-not-cool/
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutte...@who-t.net>
> > > > ---
> > > >  configure.ac | 1 -
> > > >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> > > > index 432f0e7..e510e2f 100644
> > > > --- a/configure.ac
> > > > +++ b/configure.ac
> > > > @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
> > > >  
> > > >  # Initialize Automake
> > > >  AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2 no-dist-gzip check-news])
> > > > -AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
> > > >  
> > > >  # Enable silent build when available (Automake 1.11)
> > > >  m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES],[AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])
> > > > -- 
> > > > 1.7.11.4
> 

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