Bug#580789: lintian: [checks/cruft.desc] PATCH: ancient-libtool - Improve documentation

[Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>]

Here si slightly improved patch.

Jari

>From e165776bc6b994f29f97af779844ac013ff25b35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:07:05 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] checks/cruft.desc: add instruction how to diy libtoolize
Organization: Private
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Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
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 checks/cruft.desc |   14 ++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/checks/cruft.desc b/checks/cruft.desc
index ccb925f..ffa0d07 100644
--- a/checks/cruft.desc
+++ b/checks/cruft.desc
@@ -379,13 +379,19 @@ Info: The referenced file seems to be from a libtool version
  newer architectures not known to this libtool.
  .
  Please ask your upstream maintainer to re-libtoolize the
- package or do it yourself in case there is no active upstream
- anymore.  Beware that might mean you need to update autoconf, too,
- if you use a very old version there as well.
+ package or in case there is no active upstream, do it yourself,
+ remove old ltconfig and run:
+ .
+   libtoolize --copy --force --install
+ .
+ Note: with very old packages you may see message suggesting '...add
+ the contents of... *.m4' but do *not* follow the advice, but the last
+ line that usually suggest modifying configure.in; and rerun
+ libtoolize. Beware that might mean you need to update autoconf, too.
  .
  If you have not updated the file but fixed architecture-specific
  issues with minimal patches and verified that it builds correctly
- please override this tag.  lintian will not be able to verify that.
+ please override this tag.  Lintian will not be able to verify that.
 
 Tag: source-contains-prebuilt-binary
 Severity: pedantic
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1.7.0