also sprach Russ Allbery [2009.03.10.2247 +0100]:
> > When packaging, I'm undecided on these two options:
> > 1. Build-depend on automake and let it rebuilt itself at 'make' time
>
> Definitely the right solution IMO. This is what I do with all of my
> packages.
Wasn't this heavily frowned upo
also sprach martin f krafft [2009.04.15.1207 +0200]:
> I just read again /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian
> (unfortunately, I cannot find a VCS link to that file, so I put it
> up here: [0]), and it contains a lot of valuable information on the
> issue.
Grrr
http://scratch.madduck.
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 12:07 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Russ Allbery [2009.03.10.2247 +0100]:
> > > When packaging, I'm undecided on these two options:
> > > 1. Build-depend on automake and let it rebuilt itself at 'make' time
> >
> > Definitely the right solution IMO. This is w
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009, Robert Collins wrote:
> > Wasn't this heavily frowned upon in Debian for many years?
> Opinions have varied.
And still do...
> Absolutely; not build-deping on autotools is a fundamental mistake IMO:
> it makes packages bigger (you have to carry a configure script delta),
>
On Wed, Apr 15 2009, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009, Robert Collins wrote:
>> > Wasn't this heavily frowned upon in Debian for many years?
>> Opinions have varied.
>
> And still do...
>
>> Absolutely; not build-deping on autotools is a fundamental mistake IMO:
>> it makes packages bigg
