also sprach Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> [2002.09.13.1215 +0200]: > Me too, it's silly to build-depends on autotools-dev causing a lot of > extra work for the build daemon, only to have an up to date config.sub, > config.guess pair. so don't put a build-depends and simply use the conditional form put forth earlier. then any maintainer that has autotools-dev installed will make config.sub and config.guess be included in the diff.gz, but if the autobuilders don't have it, the conditionals will simply return false and make will move on. an alternative would be to install autotools-dev on the autobuilders permanently and to put the build-depends in. so this can all be solved by changing the -test... lines to lines that employ proper conditionals. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck "it would be truly surprising if sound were not capable of suggesting colour, if colours could not give the idea of the melody, if sound and colour were not adequate to express ideas." -- claude debussy
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