Re: Outdated GNU config (config.{sub,guess}) and autotools-dev

[Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>]

Adam Heath <adam@lapdoog.doogie.brainfood.com>:
> Build-Depend: autotools-dev
> 
> 	cp -a /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
> 
> There is no need for special casing it, if you build-depend.  Using -a, the
> timestamps will be copied, so it won't fool make needlessly.

This assumes that the autotools-dev package installed on the system doing
the compilation will always have a version at least as new as the one in
the source directory. This is a fragile assumption - it would be less
fragile if the Build-Depends would be versioned, but that's more work
and more error prone than writing a script to update the files.

-- 
Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>