Re: RFS: ldtp (updated package)

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> writes:

> You copy config.sub and config.guess from autotools-dev as stated in the
> README.Debian of this package. However, copying those files in the clean
> target changes the diff.gz. Instead, you might want to add this snippet
> in the config.status target:
>
> ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)" ""
>         cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
> endif
> ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess)" ""
>         cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess
> endif

Better, you can just Build-Depend on autotools-dev and copy them
unconditionally.  You don't really want the build to change depending on
whether or not someone happens to have autotools-dev installed.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>