Re: Bug#733045: debhelper: Can debhelper make autotools-dev updating default behaviour?
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:09:38PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> See for example libevent which is a well-maintained software. It won't
> compile with automake 1.13 and later (because automake thinks that using
> $(top_srcdir) in TESTS is broken while it worked perfectly). This will
> be fixed when libevent 2.0.22 will be released. In the meantime, nobody
> complained about this problem. Should we take time to fix a problem that
> nobody sees?
You say "nobody", but in fact we did have to patch libevent in Ubuntu to
make it build on ppc64el; yet another point where what could have been a
largely automated process had to stop and wait for human intervention.
Matthias should forward the patch for that (*poke*), but it's:
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/158354967/libevent_2.0.21-stable-1_2.0.21-stable-1ubuntu1.diff.gz
Having to wait for new upstream releases when you're trying to get a
port done sucks.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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