Re: Bug#733045: debhelper: Can debhelper make autotools-dev updating default behaviour?
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> I have no problem with automatically updating config.guess/sub but I
> have one with automatic autoreconf: as automake doesn't seem to care
> about forward or backward-compatibility, using autoreconf will lead to
> additional work for the maintainer: backporting may be harder because
> automake is too old, FTBFS may happen from time to time because
> automake introduced an incompatible change, etc.
I tend to think users and Debian contributors making updates to Debian
stable not being able to patch and rebuild autotools based build
systems is a serious issue. We should enable detection of this issue
by enabling dh-autoreconf in as many packages as possible.
Building as much as possible from source at package build time should
be the norm not the exception, otherwise the build process for that
source will bitrot and we will never detect that.
--
bye,
pabs
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