On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> Source: wdiff
> Version: 1.2.1-2
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> User: debian-de...@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: autoreconf
>
> Dear maintainer(s),
>
> New ports in preparation (arm64/aarch64, openrisc/or1k, ppc64el)
> require updates to config.{guess,sub} or {libtool,aclocal}.m4 files.
>
> dh-autoreconf can be used to get new libtool macros (needed now for
> ppc64el) and update config.{sub,guess} for new arches (arm64/aarch64
> and openrisc/or1k). See the following URL for more information:
>
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS#A2014-01-21_using_dh-autoreconf_during_the_build
Sorry but I don't think that updating always the files at build time is a good
idea.
If you consider backports, updating the files *once* (before the
build) is a little bit better, as the backported package will use the
new development files in unstable. Moreover, that's what upstream
author would do, updating the files before making a "release".
If I use dh-autoreconf, then a build on stable will use the
development files in stable (which may be old for a backport).
So, in this case I'll refresh config.sub/config.guess and tell
upstream to do the same.
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