Bug#417067: closed by Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (Bug#417067: fixed in lintian 1.23.29)
Jordà Polo <jorda@ettin.org> writes:
> Lintian still reports the same error...
> Quoting «checks/cruft», line ~57:
>> # I'm not thrilled with having the automake exception as well, but people
>> # do depend on autoconf and automake and then use autoreconf to update
>> # config.guess and config.sub, and automake depends on autotools-dev.
>> # We may need to allow all the various versioned automake packages, but
>> # let's hope not.
> Bad news, I'm afraid ;)
> Actually, «/usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz» recommends
> build-depending on a versioned automake, and I think this is what most
> people do.
I was under the impression that automake as of 1.10 had dropped the
versioned thing, but I see that didn't happen. Okay, I'll go back and add
the individual versions.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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