Bug#428311: Packages awaiting sponsorship (fsvs)

[Philipp Marek <philipp@marek.priv.at>]

On Sunday 09 December 2007 Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> On Sunday 09 December 2007 21:39:01 Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> > > The debian/changelog can then also be reduced... Ah btw, what was
> > > the technical reason to run autoconf?
> >
> > I was about to say "I don't remember, it was so long ago" and then
> > took a long.  I don't think I run autoconf during the build?
>
> Ah, I see now, it's run in the configure target in the upstream
> Makefile.
>
> Philipp, do you know off-hand why we have to run autoconf in the build?
That's for the case that someone got the sources from svn, and just tries to 
run "make" - or when configure.in has changed.


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