On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > The package diverts the outdated files /usr/share/automake/config. > > I doubt that is a good idea, it would be much nicer to coordinate this > with the libtool and automake package maintainers and get them > to depend on the new package. I am certainly not adverse to the idea. I'll try to contact them by email, however I have already tried that (through the package@packages.debian.org alias) and had no success whatsoever. The diversions could be easily removed later, anyway. > > An debhelper helper script, dh_autotools is also provided. If a call to > > dh_autotools is added at the beginning of the "clean" target of > > debian/rules, it updates existing config.guess/sub files in the source > > package to the newest ones provided by autotools-dev. > > Somehow I'm not sure if that is a very good idea. Then again, I never > use debhelper so I won't notice anyway :) Heh. My packages also don't need it, as I have autogen.sh scripts that refresh all the autotools/gettext/libtool stuff on cvs export, among other things. Still, unless someone can give me a good reason why a package should not always use an up-to-date config.sub and config.guess (one doesn't even need to rerun autoconf to use them), I'd be inclined to keep dh_autotools. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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