Re: automatic autoconf config file updating
Paul Wise wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Wookey wrote:
>
>> Ben, are you following this thread? If you don't object violently to
>> adding Paul's 'update from Debian canonical config.{sub.guess}
>> locations by default' patch to the Debian autoconf, then that just
>> leaves my original issue of what ensures that those files are
>> installed at build time? Can we put it in Build-essential, or do we
>> have to have every package build-dep on it explicitly (which get us
>> back to the 'fix every package' issue (although it is a trivial fix
>> that anyone can get right in this case)).
>
>I don't think we should diverge from upstream autoconf here.
Why? I've not seen any good arguments as to why they're right here.
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