On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 08:35:05AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> 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?

Thanks!  That looks good.  xf86-input-wacom is maintained by me and uses
this workflow, so if we can apply the same patch there, that would be great.

  Cheers,
  Ron



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