I've written a wiki page on how and when to use dh-autoreconf and autotools-dev. (having done a pile of updating like this recently) People might like to comment on it/improve it. (there are more examples needed for using both together, and on updating macros from older conventions, and on tricky cases like configure in top-level, configure.ac in subdir with config.* files) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/