Package: dh-autoreconf Version: 6 Severity: wishlist I'm working on a package that has all the sources in a subdirectory, so I'm using the --sourcedirectory option recognised by the dh_auto_* tools to make them play nice, and put their files in the current directory, but otherwise work in the specified dir.
I ran into a problem with dh-autoreconf, however, because I needed to run an autogen.sh script within the source tree, but dh-autoreconf does not respect the --sourecirectory option, sadly. I ended up with something like: dh_autoreconf -- sh -c 'cd upstream && ./autogen.sh' But that's very ugly, in my opinion, and I'd rather write: dh_autoreconf -Dupstream -- ./autogen.sh I could, of course, create a debian/autogen.sh that cds to the appropriate place too, and call that, but that also sounds wrong to me. Furthermore, I have all of the common debhelper options (including -Dupstream) exported via DH_OPTIONS, so I don't repeat them all over the place. It would be very nice if dh-autoreconf would support that too (I haven't checked whether that's possible, it might not be). For reference, the package in question is my unofficial syslog-ng packaging, available on github[1], if you'd like to know why I'd like to shovel everything in DH_OPTIONS. [1]: https://github.com/algernon/syslog-ng/tree/packaging/debian/3.3 -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
