On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 09:36:26AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Altogether, the wording was not restrictive as I thought.
>
> Nevertheless, what would people think of adding a bit more explanation on the
> purpose of replacing these files ? Not all readers will have
> /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz available on their computer.
> How
> about the following addition or an equivalent?
>
> "This ensures that these files can be updated distribution-wide when
> introducing
> new architectures."
OK, please find a new patch incorporating this.
> Also, adding "at build time" somewhere may clarify that patching these files
> is not
> a good solution.
The wording "be used instead" seems to convey that already.
Looking for second, as always.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballo...@debian.org>
Imagine a large red swirl here.
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index a8afd41..794bb61 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -1624,6 +1624,14 @@ 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). This ensures that these files can
+ be updated distribution-wide when introducing new architectures.
+ </p>
<p>
If you need to edit a <prgn>Makefile</prgn> where GNU-style
