On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 12:07 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Russ Allbery <[email protected]> [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?
Opinions have varied. > 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. Or both :). > 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. Absolutely; not build-deping on autotools is a fundamental mistake IMO: it makes packages bigger (you have to carry a configure script delta), harder to review (generated content is in the diff). -Rob
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