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Re: Package checking...



On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 12:09:33PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> - ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)" ""
>         cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
> endif
> ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess)" ""
>         cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess
> endif
> 
>  Oh, i hate it. Thats UPSTREAM WORK. Nothing for Debian
>  Packages. Makes unneccessary big debian diff.gz.

That's quite arguable. Upstreams often don't care about updating
config.guess and config.sub, and don't realize how often it's needed for
porting to even some relatively ordinary architectures. If all it takes
to port something to mips is to update config.guess and config.sub, I'll
do it; obviously I'd let upstream know, but their timescales are
undoubtedly different and I don't see why Debian porters should have to
wait.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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