Re: Removal of libtool1.4

[Warren Turkal <wt@midsouth.rr.com>]

Colin Watson wrote:

>> Where does the autotools-dev say you don't need a build dependency?
>> 
>> A missing build dependency on libtool1.4 is an obvious RC bug, and the
>> package will fail to build on every autobuilder.
> 
> Eh? If you generate all the necessary files before uploading, put them
> in your source package, and don't use anything from the libtool1.4
> package in your build process, why should you need to build-depend on
> libtool1.4? This was Henning's example.

And this is considered best practice.

wt
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