Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> It's a bit risky if we don't do a mass rebuild after a new
> autotools-related package upload. I still see quite a lot of warnings
> if I re-run the tools on older sources, but these days, most builds seem
> to work out alright.
Yeah, most of the warnings are about underquoting, and *usually* m4 ends
up doing the right thing anyway.
> Given that it makes this makes it more likely that patches that require
> rerunning the tools work out cleanly, it seems a good idea overall.
My impression from doing this in about ten packages is that it's more
likely to break things than a new gcc release for C code but less likely
than a new g++ release for C++ code or a new major Perl release for Perl
packages.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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