Re: The automake issue, and why crippling 1.6 is a bad plan
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:01:59PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > Remember: automake & autoconf should not be something that build
> > platforms need worry about - they're only for the maintainer who runs
> > them if he changes Makefile.am/configure.{in,ac} before generating the
> > diff. The source package shouldn't *need* them (if it does, I'd
> > consider that a bug).
>
> Lots of packages need to make changes to configure.in, I have to make
> changes to the one in SDL, for example.
Then read /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.
Ignorance is not an excuse anymore, go fix the package. Get the
cyrus21-imapd source package if you need any help. Hint: cyrus builds
straight from CVS, using cvs-buildpackage, and it still manages to generate
configure only once, and not bother the users, nor build-depend on autoconf.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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