Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 05:05:48PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> It's an interesting question whether we should just force dh-autoreconf
>> in debhelper unless the package maintainer explicitly turns it off. It
>> would save me work, just as I've now been able to take overrides back
>> out of all of my packages now that dpkg defaults to xz compression.
>> But it would be disruptive, and some packages would definitely fail to
>> build afterwards.
> So arguably, such a behavior change should be tied to a debhelper compat
> level change.
Oh, hey, good point. That would eliminate most of the disruption problem.
> But I think we ought to switch to autoreconfing by default.
Agreed, particularly given that we now have a good and fairly reliable
tool for doing so.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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