Re: Removal of automake1.5

[Sebastian Rittau <srittau@jroger.in-berlin.de>]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 08:19:54PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:

> I'm of the opinion that no package should build-depend on
> any automake package. They should run automake on the source tree and
> pack that with the .diff.gz.

Actually, normally it's enough, just to call automake-x.y on the
Makefiles that got changed. Suppose foo/Makefile.am and x/y/Makefile.am
were changed. In this case it's better just to call e.g.

  automake-1.6 foo/Makefile
  automake-1.6 x/y/Makefile

This will prevent bloating the diff.

 - Sebastian