Re: Request for NMU

[Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>]

Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> writes:

> --- debian/control.old	Thu Nov 29 16:31:54 2001
> +++ debian/control	Thu Nov 29 16:32:17 2001
> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
>  Priority: optional
>  Maintainer: Hwei Sheng Teoh <hsteoh@debian.org>
>  Build-Depends: debhelper
> +Build-Conflicts: automake
>  Standards-Version: 3.1.1

Adrian (and H.S.), did you see the thread entitled "automake fun"?
At least personally I very much dislike the Build-Conflicts solution
to this problem, for reasons outlined in that thread.

There were two other (similar) solutions offered;

Steve Robbin's:

    make ACLOCAL="`pwd`/missing aclocal" \
	AUTOCONF="`pwd`/missing autoconf" \
	AUTOMAKE="`pwd`/missing automake" \
	AUTOHEADER="`pwd`/missing autoheader"

Adam Heath's:

        build:
	mkdir -p debian/bin
	ln -s /bin/true debian/bin/automake
	ln -s /bin/true debian/bin/autoconf
	$(MAKE) build PATH=$(CURDIR)/debian/bin:$PATH

Personally I favor Adam's because I believe the "missing" script is
only generated by newer Automakes.

These are both short term solutions; the long term is to convince
upstream to not use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE (Matt Zimmerman).