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Re: Bug#733045: debhelper: Can debhelper make autotools-dev updating default behaviour?



On 24 December 2013 20:10, Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@wrar.name> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 05:33:56PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>> Generally agreed, although I believe you have to be somewhat careful
>> when using it in combination with dh-autoreconf
> dh-autoreconf(7) says "you do not need --with=autotools_dev if you use
> --with=autoreconf"
>

See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=698765

When a package uses autoconf/AC_CANONICAL_* but not libtool/automake
dh-autoreconf does not update config.guess/config.sub.
One example is given on the bug report, I have another one - x264.

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.


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