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

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] Vincent Bernat 

> We don't need to put more burden on maintainers. It is better to really
> build from sources and it is good if you spend time on it, but IMO, we
> can't afford to make this a rule.

Given that the configure is automatically generated from configure.ac,
it's pretty clear that configure.ac is the source and configure isn't,
really.  It's some kind of intermediate format.

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