Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:
> This only works because dpkg-buildpackage calls the clean target before
> doing anything, BTW. And all things Debian follow its lead (i.e. pbuilder,
> the buildds, sbuild, cvs-buildpackage, etc all either use dpkg-buildpackage
> or do things as dpkg-buildpackage would do).
And that is the key piece of information I had missed. The clean target
runs before the diff.gz is created. That makes many things easy.
>> If the Debian maintainer has run autotools before uploading, should
>> the buildds re-run the autotools or not?
>
> They need not to IMHO, but if you want them to, you can easily force that to
> happen as well. I would only do that if I needed to dpatch configure.ac,
> or something like that.
>
>> > Agreed. That's the current best practice for Debian, as far as I am
>> > concerned.
>
> I should have added that doing it at build time if you have a good reason to
> is also best-practice.
>
>> README.Debian.gz is a little obscure in places, and answers to the
>> above questions would be helpful to me.
>
> Sure thing. Did the above answers help any?
Yes. Thanks!
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KBK
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