Source: findutils Version: 4.4.2-9 Severity: wishlist User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap
Hi, while working with the findutils package (to make it work for musl-linux-any), I noticed that it cannot be autoreconfed with aclocal-1.15. Thus building configure from configure.ac requires a non-recent version of automake. In case automake1.11 gets removed from the archive, findutils should therefore be moved to contrib (or have its configure.ac fixed). So to avoid accidentally removing automake1.11 at some point, findutils should Build-Depends on it even though it is not using it during build (yet). Does that make sense to you? Background: This is not an artificial problem. findutils' embedded gnulib copy has a history of being the problem to portability, because it is always outdated. gnulib is a Problem again and fixing freadahead requires a new configure check. The particular problem shall be part of a separate bug, but the process of applying an upstream fix to findutils proved painful to figure out. Helmut
