On sam., 2014-09-06 at 16:02 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Hi Yves-Alexis!
>
> * Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>, 2014-09-06, 12:55:
> >lintian has checks for “correct” dates of config.{guess,sub} in the
> >source package, especially for support for newer architectures.
> >
> >I didn't check but I guess it drops the warning in case debian/rules
> >use autoreconf command or dh applet, since then the files will be
> >updated at build time.
>
> Not quite. Lintian has a list of packages that can be used for updating
> config.{sub,guess} (see data/cruft/autotools), and it optimistically
> assumes that if you have any of these in Build-Depends, then your
> d/rules takes care of updating the files.
Ok :)
>
> >Can xdt-autogen (from xfce4-dev-tools package) be added to the list of
> >commands dropping the warning? The command does the job of updating
> >autotools files (plus some Xfce specific stuff).
>
> Don't you need to put automake in Build-Depends to be able to use
> xdt-autogen? That should be enough to satisfy Lintian.
>
It's in xfce4-dev-tools recommends and is usually brought by
build-essential anwyay, I guess.
Regards,
--
Yves-Alexis
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