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Bug#165830: marked as done (Warning for build-depending on automake* and autoconf)

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and subject line Warning for build-depending on automake* and autoconf
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Package: lintian
Version: 1.21.2
Severity: wishlist

Depending on automake and autoconf is almost never a good idea. They
should run autoconf or automake on their source tree before building the
source package. It would be nice if lintian had a warning about this.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux apocalypse 2.4.18 #1 Fri Mar 29 02:45:45 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=3Den_US, LC_CTYPE=3Den_US

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                  2.13.90.0.10-1 The GNU assembler, linker and =
bina
ii  diffstat                  1.28-1         produces graph of changes intr=
oduc
ii  file                      3.39-1         Determines file type using "ma=
gic"
ii  man-db                    2.4.0-10       The on-line manual pager
ii  perl                      5.8.0-13       Larry Wall's Practical Extract=
ion =


-- no debconf information

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Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> wrote:

> Depending on automake and autoconf is almost never a good idea. They
> should run autoconf or automake on their source tree before building the
> source package. It would be nice if lintian had a warning about this.

This approach is now an officially accepted approach documented in
/usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz, particularly for packages
that use dpatch or some other patch system, and a lot of people prefer it.
Accordingly, while I recognize there's a difference of opinion and a lot
of people really don't like it, I don't think it's appropriate for lintian
to warn about this.  Hence, closing this bug.

If anyone really wants to pursue this, I think the appropriate way would
be opening a bug against autotools-dev to get the policy document
modified.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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