On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 09:10:32PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Friday 13 January 2006 19:40, Claudio Moratti wrote: > > On Friday 13 January 2006 15:48, Christoph Haas wrote: > > > debian/patches: [QUESTION/HINT] > > > You are changing a whole lot of the autoconf parts. Does this have > > > to do with some transitions going on? Usually just the config.guess > > > and config.sub are altered in Debian packages and those are directly > > > in the diff.gz (without the need to use dpatch). Just curious. > > My first sponsor, Florian Ernst, taught me about libtoolization... > > I relibtoolize every package, if necessary, in order to have a correct > > and minimal "Depencend" field... > > this is the reason ;-) > I thought I understood at least the reason to include diffs for a > config.guess and config.sub. But IMHO relibtooling is only needed when > certain libraries are in a state of transitions. 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. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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