Re: Outdated config.{sub,guess} package list
Michal Čihař <nijel@debian.org> writes:
> Dne Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:10:24 +0300
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> napsal(a):
>
>> Like lintian, your list falsely includes packages that use cdbs to build,
>> which automatically updates config.{sub,guess}.
>
> If you don't build depend on autotools-dev, nothing can be updated (at
> least it was case for my package which uses dh).
Speaking of autotools-dev, that package seems somewhat outdated.
Upstream config.{sub,guess} is newer than what's in autotools-dev, for
example, and the /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz
documentation does not accurately describe modern autotools.
I don't think overriding config.{sub,guess} in debian packaging is the
right solution without forwarding the problem report upstream. It is
not a debian specific problem.
/Simon
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