Re: RFS: irmp3 -- mp3 Jukebox (LIRC support)
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:30:23PM +0100, Erik Schanze wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net>:
> > Erik Schanze wrote:
> > > Your way will not fail, but could be improved.
> > > The advantage of Build-Depends on autotools-dev is to have the
> > > newest config.* stuff available. There is no need to include the
> > > new config.* files into diff. If you do so, you don't need to
> > > Build-Depend on autotools-dev, but your diff grows.
> >
> > Well, I beg to differ. Its important to have current
> > config.{sub,guess} to ensure, that the package builds on the latest
> > debian ports (e.g. kfreebsd), and sometimes.. if the files are really
> > outdated, its even essential to be buildable on !i386.
> >
> Yes, it's important to have the latest config.* files at build time, but
> isn't the autotools-dev depends responsible for it, that they are
> available under /usr/share/misc/ at buildtime?
> Then we link to it and have it. The original ones are out of interest.
> (Should be moved aside.)
> Why should the config.* files included into the diff?
> Aren't autotools-dev available on ports you mention?
I think the idea is that then the .diff defines the entire state of
the package as it existed when the maintainer created the .deb for his
architecture.
--
Clear skies,
Justin
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