Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist
From [1]:
- Automake 2.0 will drop support for the long-deprecated 'configure.in'
name for the Autoconf input file. You are advised to start using the
recommended name 'configure.ac' instead, ASAP.
I would suggest the following plan for Debian & lintian:
Introduce a pedantic warning about this as soon as possible.
Progressively upgrade it over the jessie release to a warning.
Once automake 2.0 hits Debian upgrade it to an error. The rationale here
is that build systems should be rebuildable by users out of the box
without messing around. After a transition period it should become a
non-overridable error.
1. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2013-05/msg00049.html
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