Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.
* Russ Allbery:
> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
>> * Russ Allbery:
>
>>> This doesn't regenerate the other files from scratch. This only
>>> addresses config.{sub,guess}, which is only a small part of the
>>> problem.
>
>> Is the generated libtool file dependent on the package configuration?
>
> No, but you have to re-run autoconf in order to get the changes to the
> Libtool m4 files into the actual configure script. So you'd be okay if
> you only needed to patch ltmain.sh with no configure support, but not for
> anything deeper.
Oh dear, what a mess. Now I definitely agree that dh-autoreconf is
the only thing that provides long-term compatibility. It's a bit sad.
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