also sprach Russ Allbery <r...@stanford.edu> [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 upon in Debian for many years?
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.
Maybe the most important message from it is that the use of patch
systems (and this includes vcs-pkg, at least in spirit) requires one
to do either
- build-depend on automake/autoconf and make those steps part of
the build process
- work with upstream to fix their build systems so they can be
tweaked for distros with command-line options instead of
patches.
To me, it sounds like those are exactly our goals, so it seems as if
build-depending on the autotools is the right way forward.
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