Bug#293296: lintian: detect outdated libtool for GNU/kFreeBSD

[Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz>]

> > For GNU/kFreeBSD, the milestone (upstream) libtool version are
> >
> > 1.5.2-1  - earlier does not support GNU/kFreeBSD at all
> >
> > 1.5.24-1 - fixed anon_versioning bug for GNU/kFreeBSD and hurd (rarely
> > hitted)
>
> That should we advise people to do in the description of the tag?
> Obviously if they have an active upstream, asking them to update the
> libtool files is the best way to go, but what if upstream is inactive?
>
> Should we encourage them to update the libtool files in the Debian
> package or should they try to do a minimal patch, like you send them
> out?

Better way is to update libtool in a standard way, i.e. by "autoreconf -vfi".
It have one limitation - current libtool does not work with old autoconf2.13.
In such cases I (we) send a patch for ancient libtool.

I have a preliminary list of affected packages,
see http://glibc-bsd.alioth.debian.org/outdated.libtool

Petr