Re: RFS: knmap -- Kde interface to nmap [uploaded]
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote:
> There are *always* libraries in a state of transition in Debian. Using the
> Debian libtool means limiting those transitions to packages which have a
> valid reason for depending on the transitioning library, instead of giving
> us transitions that ripple through all the indirect reverse-dependencies.
>
> Just to be clear, relibtoolizing should only need to be a one-time thing.
We differ in opinions, here. I'd rather people wrote a proper
autogen.sh-like script for their packages, so that they could easily and
PAinlessly autoreconf (or the equivalent) their packages often. For most
up-to-date packages re. autotools, this is just a call to autoreconf.
The reason is that bugs in libtool propagate to packages until they
re-libtoolize... an one-time thing is better than nothing, it gets a much
better than average version of libtool (Debian's current one in sid) into
the package.
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Henrique Holschuh
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