Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-19 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi all, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 17.02.2010 20:50, schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: Looks good, feel free to upload it when you feel like it. Thanks, but I am not a DD and have no upload rights. :( I am fine with those changes as

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-18 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 17.02.2010 20:50, schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: Looks good, feel free to upload it when you feel like it. Thanks, but I am not a DD and have no upload rights. :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 17.02.2010 20:50, schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: Looks good, feel free to upload it when you feel like it. Thanks, but I am not a DD and have no upload rights. :( Well, I will get to it soon enough, and any other DD that is in the loop,

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-17 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Dienstag, den 16.02.2010, 14:16 -0200 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: Would you agree on _updateconfig and _restoreconfig ? I've prepared an NMU to finally implement this feature, please find it attached to this mail. I tried to stay close to what has been done in the quilt package, but

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am Dienstag, den 16.02.2010, 14:16 -0200 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: Would you agree on _updateconfig and _restoreconfig ? I've prepared an NMU to finally implement this feature, please find it attached to this mail. I tried to stay

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Fabian Greffrath wrote: @Henrique: If I renamed my initial scripts to dh_config-scripts_update and dh_config-scripts_restore and renamed the dh sequence addon to config-scripts.pm, would you then accept them in autotools-dev? The Yes. -- One disk to rule them all, One

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com writes: Am Mittwoch, den 10.02.2010, 12:43 -0800 schrieb Ben Pfaff: I'm not sure whether these should go into the autoconf binary package or a separate binary package. I see both practices in the archive. Maybe it would make sense to introduce an

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-10 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 05.02.2010 22:06, schrieb Julian Andres Klode: The scripts I provided only delete files that changed during autoreconf and that seems to work very well in most cases. In cases where a file should not be deleted, one could pass -X parameters to dh_autoreconf_clean. But the scripts could maybe

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-10 Thread Ben Pfaff
Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com writes: OK, now what's the consent on these scripts? Will they be included in the next autoconf package? I'm still trying to figure out exactly what I want to do. I probably won't have time to actually take action until the weekend, or perhaps Monday

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-10 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Mittwoch, den 10.02.2010, 12:43 -0800 schrieb Ben Pfaff: I'm a little concerned about maintaining a new set of scripts that I don't use myself, so I would probably have to put in a bit of time to convert my doschk or fmtools packages to use these scripts too. I believe the scripts will be

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Hmm, this is MUCH better than the other scripts and/or namings proposed. Since you already asked if to be added to the autoconf package, I will just keep monitoring the bug as long as I get the CCs. If you decide it is best done in autotools-dev, when you reach the final version of the script,

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010, Julian Andres Klode wrote: Adding an optional command to debhelper that likely does not do the right thing for a fairly large percentage of packages (my experience with running autoreconf and having it actually work, in the real world, is not exactly stellar) would be

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-05 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 04.02.2010 21:29, schrieb Julian Andres Klode: Anyway, this approach should allow us to build packages including autoreconf with a simple %: dh --with autoreconf $@ debian/rules file which would be great. If you don't want to libtoolize, and the package includes the libtool macros

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-05 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Am Freitag, den 05.02.2010, 10:11 +0100 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: Julien, I've got one thing to add to your scripts. You just check for files that have been changed during autoreconf and remove them. However, in most (all?) cases the directory autom4te.cache will be created by autoreconf.

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-05 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 05.02.2010 10:12, schrieb Julian Andres Klode: New files are also changed files in some way and will be removed as well. But we don't have to care about new directories because directories don't appear in a diff. I know, but it feels cleaner to not have empty (and actually useless)

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-05 Thread Joey Hess
Julian Andres Klode wrote: He wants you to include the debhelper commands, because autoconf includes autoreconf and those are special dh_* commands for autoreconf. But they could also be included in debhelper directly if you think this would be better (and if joeyh shares this opinion).

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-05 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Am Freitag, den 05.02.2010, 15:53 -0500 schrieb Joey Hess: Julian Andres Klode wrote: He wants you to include the debhelper commands, because autoconf includes autoreconf and those are special dh_* commands for autoreconf. But they could also be included in debhelper directly if you think

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-04 Thread Fabian Greffrath
reassign 527581 autoconf notfound 527581 20090611.1 found 527581 2.65-3 thanks As the original author of the patches discussed here, I must say that I like JAK's approach even more. However, since it calls autoreconf, it should be reassigned to the autoconf (or maybe automake, CC'ed both

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-04 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Am Donnerstag, den 04.02.2010, 21:06 +0100 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: reassign 527581 autoconf notfound 527581 20090611.1 found 527581 2.65-3 thanks As the original author of the patches discussed here, I must say that I like JAK's approach even more. However, since it calls autoreconf, it

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-04 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Am Donnerstag, den 04.02.2010, 12:30 -0800 schrieb Ben Pfaff: Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com writes: As the original author of the patches discussed here, I must say that I like JAK's approach even more. However, since it calls autoreconf, it should be reassigned to the autoconf

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com writes: As the original author of the patches discussed here, I must say that I like JAK's approach even more. However, since it calls autoreconf, it should be reassigned to the autoconf (or maybe automake, CC'ed both maintainers) package. Since it's

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-03 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 02:01:16PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:47:36AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Jon Dowland wrote: I am considering uploading a DELAYED 7 NMU for this bug tonight or tomorrow. HMH, if you have plans to

Bug#527581: dh_autoreconf script for autotools-dev

2010-02-03 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:27:00PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 02:01:16PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:47:36AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Jon Dowland wrote: I am considering uploading a