Re: Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:03:24PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:47:41PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:55:03PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > > No, I don't want to force a version, I want the package to force it.
> > By forcing a version I mean doing so in the package.
> Then I still don't understand your statement above. What is the thing
> that you prefer to check outside the normal build process?
That we can regenerate the autotools products.
> not wasted though. So I have a question:
> Does everyone agree that it would in theory be better to run autotools
> during the build process? In other words, if you don't have to do
> anything to your packages for it, would you have a problem with this?
If I didn't have to do anything - but the maintainer is at least going
to have to upload changes to run autotools.
> Build-depending on versioned automake doesn't look really nice, though.
> This is how it currently should be done, AFAIK, but it might be better
> to recommend against it. However, in that case great care must be taken
> when increasing its version, similar to increasing the default gcc
> version.
Of course, doing this introduces all the work that was causing people to
raise concerns about this...
> Of course this is a separate point. IMO clean should remove any file
> which was changed during the build. And secondly, I think build should
> regenerate everything it can. Combined, these can be formulated as
> "clean should remove all non-source files", because every shipped
> non-source file must be updated (and thus changed) by the build.
Right, half the thing for me is that I don't see this as being something
that we need to check on each and every single build.
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