Bug#748476: RFS: eggdrop/1.6.21-2

[Vincent Cheng <vcheng@debian.org>]

Control: tag -1 + moreinfo

Hi Cédric,

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Cédric Barboiron <ced@winkie.fr> wrote:
> Package: sponsorship-requests
> Severity: normal
>
>   Dear mentors,
>
>   I am looking for a sponsor for my package "eggdrop"
>
>  * Package name    : eggdrop
>    Version         : 1.6.21-2
>    Upstream Author : EggHeads Development Team <eggheads@eggheads.org>
>  * URL             : http://www.eggheads.org/
>  * License         : GPL-2+
>    Section         : net
>
>   It builds those binary packages:
>
>     eggdrop    - Advanced IRC Robot
>  eggdrop-data - Architecture independent files for eggdrop
>
>   To access further information about this package, please visit the
>   following URL:
>
>   http://mentors.debian.net/package/eggdrop
>
>
>   Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this
>   command:
>
>     dget -x
>     http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/eggdrop/eggdrop_1.6.21-2.dsc
>
>   More information about hello can be obtained from
>   http://www.example.com.
>
>   Changes since the last upload:
>
>     * debian/patches/03fix_freebsd_build:
>     - use $CC in SHLIB_LD (instead of hardcoded ld)

Why are you patching automatically generated files (configure, in this
case)? I'm certainly not an autotools expert, but can't you patch
aclocal.m4 instead and then run autoreconf (or rather, use
dh-autoreconf) afterwards?

Regards,
Vincent