Re: RFC: xinetd autoreconf
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:28:49AM +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
> the current package has a patch that basically is a replacement of the
> configure script. The patch is extremely complicated and i guess not really
> meant for human eyes.
>
> What i was trying to do is to use dh_autoreconf and have the configure script
> regenerated automatically instead of including a patch i can't check.
>
> But the autoreconf command fails. I've tried multiple versions and it always
> fails giving a long list of warnings about missing template and then
> > autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoheader failed with exit status: 1
Ie, the package is shipping code without source. A "configure" script is as
far away from something readable/editable as you can be while still using
shell. I don't think anyone can possibly call it "a preferred form for
modification" with a straight face.
Yet another example why --disable-maintainer-mode is bad.
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