On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 09:42:23AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 04:46:53PM +0200, Bill Allombert a écrit : > > </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> > > Hi Bill and everybody, > > I agree with the intent, but I think that the wording is too restrictive, > since > a package that would use autoreconf and install config.* files at a version > newer than what autotools-dev provides would not comply with the Policy.
This was intentional: this allow porters to update config.sub and config.guess in autotools-dev and not have to update all the automake versions. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
