Bug#570034: Do not report outdated-autotools-helper-file for cdbs packages
Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> writes:
> if a package build‐depends on cdbs and the rules file contains the line
> “include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/autotools.mk”, everything is fine,
> because cdbs updates the autotools files.
No, you still need to build-depend on the appropriate packages, even if
cdbs is in use. cdbs itself does not do so, and if you don't have an
appropriate build-depends, cdbs will not update the files.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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