Re: Outdated config.{sub,guess} package list
On Saturday 25 April 2009 02:51:40 Bradley Smith wrote:
> In light of the recent outdated config.{sub,guess} discussion I have
> decided to generate a list[0] of packages that have these files from before
> June 2006, which is when the AVR32 architecture was added.
> 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.
Like lintian, your list falsely includes packages that use cdbs to build,
which automatically updates config.{sub,guess}.
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