Re: Bug#796828: RFS: xfce4-equake-plugin/1.3.8
+++ Jeroen van Aart [2015-08-27 15:37 -0700]:
> On 08/27/2015 01:20 AM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> >3) control/rules file: what about using dh-autoreconf instead of autotools-dev?
>
> Would I have to use dh-autoreconf? I tried it but it causes some
> build errors I can't seem to fix. As far as can see it's not a
> requirement and things have worked fine using autotools-dev.
This page explains why it is a good thing (but also, as you say, not
an actual requirement yet): https://wiki.debian.org/Autoreconf
It also gives some clues for things to fix if you get errors.
So it is good practice for a package to be autoreconfable as that
means that it will build on more architectures, and new architectures
correctly. But if you cannot easily fix it this is not a reason to
delay upload (but you should probably tell upstream that their autofoo
is broken/outdated).
Wookey
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