On 12 July 2014 19:50, Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> wrote: > 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. >
I thought autoreconf / dh-autoreconf install the versions provided by autotools-dev on Debian systems. If that's not the case, we should fix it. -- Regards, Dimitri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
