Bug#746514: Autoreconf during build

[Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@debian.org>]

On 12 July 2014 19:50, Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

I thought autoreconf / dh-autoreconf install the versions provided by
autotools-dev on Debian systems. If that's not the case, we should fix
it.

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.