On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:36:34PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
>
> It seems that a lot of packages do not use something like
> autoreconf during build, and every time someone starts a new
> port he has to patches way too many packages to get config.guess
> and config.sub updated.
>
> I would like that we say that at least config.guess and config.sub
> must be updated during the build process and that things like
> configure should be regenerated during the build process.
To make things move forward, I offer the following patch as a first step.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballo...@debian.org>
Imagine a large red swirl here.
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 4855506..b71c088 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -1625,6 +1625,13 @@ zope.
detects the correct architecture specification string
(refer to <ref id="arch-spec"> for details).
</p>
+ <p>
+ If your package includes the scripts <prgn>config.sub</prgn> and
+ <prgn>config.guess</prgn>, you should arrange for the versions
+ provided by the package <package>autotools-dev</package> be used
+ instead (see <package>autotools-dev</package> documentation for
+ details how to achieve that).
+ </p>
<p>
If you need to edit a <prgn>Makefile</prgn> where GNU-style
