Re: RFS: lesstif2 (updated package) [Was: Re: How to give lesstif2 some attention?]

[Michael Biebl <biebl@teco.edu>]

Am 29.04.2009 23:12, schrieb Neil Williams:
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:09:37 +0200
> Paul Gevers<paul@climbing.nl>  wrote:

> > W: lesstif2 source: outdated-autotools-helper-file config.guess
> > 2005-05-15 W: lesstif2 source: outdated-autotools-helper-file
> > config.sub 2005-05-12
>
> The PTS claims 85 lintian errors and warnings, so that is a
> considerable advance. The spelling error appears trivial and the
> autotools ones are new, there was an announcement about those on
> debian-devel regarding problems with new architectures (and, for that
> matter cross-building) when these files are so out of date. autoreconf
> will sort those out - you could try it in debian/rules but be aware
> that updating such an old package could cause new bugs so it might be
> best to do the entire refresh thing upstream.

A less invasive approach is, to build-depend on autotools-dev and copy 
config.(guess,sub) from there. If you backup the exisisting files, you 
can easily copy them back on clean to return to a pristine state.

Running autoreconf has the potential disadvantage that if you run it 
twice in a row (and you don't remove all autogenerated files in the 
clean target), that your diff.gz will get bloated.

Cheers,
Michael