Bug#746514: Autoreconf during build

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 09:42:23AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 04:46:53PM +0200, Bill Allombert a écrit :
> >  	</p>
> > +	<p>
> > +          If your package includes the scripts <prgn>config.sub</prgn> and 
> > +          <prgn>config.guess</prgn>, you should arrange for the versions
> > +          provided by the package <package>autotools-dev</package> be used
> > +          instead (see <package>autotools-dev</package> documentation for
> > +          details how to achieve that).
> > +	</p>
> 
> Hi Bill and everybody,
> 
> I agree with the intent, but I think that the wording is too restrictive, since
> a package that would use autoreconf and install config.* files at a version
> newer than what autotools-dev provides would not comply with the Policy.

This was intentional: this allow porters to update config.sub and config.guess 
in autotools-dev and not have to update all the automake versions.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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