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Re: Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build



On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 02:07:31PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> >>   Description     : debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build
> >>
> >> Package: dh-autoreconf
> 
> I'd suggest just putting this into debhelper rather than making it a
> separate package.

Well, Joey wrote the following:

> Regarding including these commands in debhelper, I am uncertian because
> these commands would not be included in the default dh sequences, or the
> example rules files, and that would be a first -- currently every
> command in debhelper is included in the dh sequences and all except dh_auto_*
> are included in the longer example rules files.
> 
> Adding an optional command to debhelper that likely does not do the
> right thing for a fairly large percentage of packages (my experience
> with running autoreconf and having it actually work, in the real world,
> is not exactly stellar) would be a departure.

-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.

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