* Roger Leigh (roger@whinlatter.uklinux.net) wrote: > Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> writes: > > > The only problem with this rename is that packages with a version > > Build-Depend on automake will stop building from source (Of course I > > hope people realize build-depending on automake is a bad > > idea). Luckily there are only 22 packages with this problem: > > > > abiword > > allegro4 > > avifile > > bison > [snip] > > > This is a heads up to the maintainers of those source packages that > > the will have to fix things when this change goes through. I will file > > the bugs if necessary. I hope no one has any serious problems with > > this. > > This may have been covered before, but *why* are *any* packages > Build-Depending on automake in the first place? The best approach > would be for maintainers to run automake in the source tree and have > the changes included in the Debian diff, ensuring that the build will > work on any machine. That's what they should do, the only real disadvantage is that it makes the diff a bit bigger. But it makes the build much more predictable and reliable. I wonder if a should in policy or a lintian warning would be helpful. > This takes little effort on the part of the maintainer, and keeps the > number of Build-Dependencies down. > -- Eric Dorland <dorland@lords.com> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: hooty@jabber.com 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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