Colin Walters wrote:
> One problem with automatically updating config.{sub,guess} by running
> the autotools like you suggest is that it will (as James Troup points
> out in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=195531) hide
> problems. If config.{sub,guess} are outdated, upstream should be
> prodded.
>
> But that doesn't mean that we can't temporarily update it for Debian, as
> long as we still get the lintian warning about outdated versions, which
> will hopefully remind the Debian maintainer to prod upstream. This is
> implemented in cdbs.
This is also "implemented" in running autotools at build time and deleting
all the files they generate. Lintian sees the original, outdated files
and warns nicely.
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