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Re: Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file



On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:00:55PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> It's not just the computing resources required that concern me, it's
> also the effort involved in doing it and the disruption that could be
> caused, especially if we were to do things like changing autotools
> versions underneath the package.

I think by doing things the gcc-way, there shouldn't be much trouble at
all, and as far as there is, we can delay it until we have time (by
waiting with the upgrade).

But if this is a concern for many people, it is of course possible to do
it in a separate (but not optional, IMO) target.  It should be defined
in a way which allows easy building of the binary package from real
source.  (This should be the normal situation if you call it before
dpkg-buildpackage.  However, it should be mandated that this really
works, and that the normal build doesn't still use some other generated
files.)

Thanks,
Bas

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