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Re: RFS: ipsec-tools - IPsec tools for Linux - racoon - IPsec IKE keying daemon



Am 23.02.2010 12:20, Simon Richter schrieb:
>> IIRC, debhelper modified the upstream config.guess/config.sub files
>> during build and that was a serious problem for lintian to keep them
>> in diff. I hope that was correct.
> 
> I don't know if the "dh $*" invocation updates these files, but
> individual dh_* programs never do.
> 
> The rules you commented out update the files if (possibly) newer ones
> are available, which of course makes them show up in the diff. The best
> (and only) way to avoid that and still have them updated is to
> build-depend on autotools-dev, delete the files in the "clean" target
> and copy them unconditionally before running the configure script.
> 
> This will still give warnings from dpkg-source (because it won't
> generate a diff for deleted files), but that can be safely ignored.

So it is best practise to use always the latest autotools-dev during
compiling. Removing them afterwards in the delete target should not
cause anything mentioned in the diff. Sounds logical if i get you
correct.

Stefan

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