Re: ocaml 3.07beta2 is up at people.debian.org/~luther/ocaml

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:39:51AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Sven Luther (sven.luther@wanadoo.fr):
> 
> > W: ocaml source: newer-standards-version 3.6.0
> 
> lintian needs update. BTW, you can now use 3.6.1 as long as you use
> debconf for user input during package installation.
> 
> > W: ocaml source: outdated-autotools-helper-file config/gnu/config.guess 2001-06-25
> > W: ocaml source: outdated-autotools-helper-file config/gnu/config.sub 2001-06-08
> 
> Maybe you can consider using in debian/rules a system for
> automagically replace upstream-provided config.{guess|sub} files by
> more up-to-date ones which come with autotools-dev.

> 
> See /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev README's for examples.....Or one of
> my packages (lifelines or poedit).

Err, the default debhelper stuff copies these files in the clean target,
which is a bit broken in my opinion. Better would be to make a backup
and copy the files in the configure target, and restore the originals in
the clean target. There is really no need to clutter the .diff.gz with
this stuff, since it will be overwritten for builds anyway. Maybe it
would be needed to build-depends on the autotools-dev then though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther