On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:49:01PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 10:30:49PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > The ppc64el port requires a patch to libtool.m4. I don't think that's > > in Debian yet, but when it is it will require autoreconfing a bunch of > > packages to pick it up. thunar could handle this quite easily by using > > dh-autoreconf, which will update its copies of the libtool macros. > > Unless we want to autoreconf each and every C package in Debian,
IMO every package using the autotools should autoreconf itself at build time, yes. I'm not the only one who thinks this; /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz has been strongly recommending it for at least four years. I fixed all my own packages some time ago, as have a number of other developers. Now, I know better than to advocate for it being a release-critical bug or whatever until it's somewhat more widespread practice; but this is a case that autoreconf-at-build-time would have avoided, so it's a good excuse to introduce it to this package now to save problems next time. > I think we'll wait until that port is actually introduced. Can you > keep us updated in case we miss it? This doesn't make sense to me, I'm afraid. dh_autoreconf arranges to run autoreconf at the start of the build, so there's no reason to wait for the libtool patches in question to be applied in Debian before you apply my patch. It is of benefit even without those patches since it means that anyone who needs to patch your package's build system can do so simply by patching the true source files, without having to figure out how to regenerate things appropriately as well. The port itself was announced in http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2013/09/msg00045.html. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
