On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 10:58:17AM -0300, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote: > >Clearly, the original files were generated without patching. > > Agreed. I would think it might have happened when ansi2knr was not > yet deprecated, or a local option was used in a Makefile.am, maybe > both.. maybe none. :)
According to the embedded comments, the files were generated by 1.11.1. > If I got you right, the inconvenience itself seems to be carrying > a patch only for that matter, if an env var/cmdline arg could do. > So, for that, I wouldn't know another option. > > Would that be OK with the rationale above? I am concerned that, if we cannot rebuild the files from the upstream source without patching, we cannot trust future versions of autoconf/automake to process our patched code correctly. This leads to a huge maintainance cost. Cheers, Bill. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
