Re: Outdated config.{sub,guess} package list
Bradley Smith <bradsmith@debian.org> writes:
> The list was generated using lintian 2.2.9 with this[1] patch. It is
> obviously possible that there are false positives in this list since the
> files might be not be actually used in the build, or they are copied from
> the host on clean etc. Please let me know if this is the case for one of
> your packages so I can avoid filing pointless bugs later on, although it
> is probably better to either remove/replace these files or override the
> lintian error.
The autoconf2.13 package was flagged, but I am not sure that it
makes sense to update the config.{sub,guess} files in a package
that is provided only for use with software that itself has not
been updated in many years.
(Maybe it's time to get rid of the autoconf2.13 package
altogether, come to think of it.)
--
Ben Pfaff
http://benpfaff.org
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