Package: autotools-dev Version: 20150820.1 Hi,
/usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz states: > Do NOT use dh-autoreconf and dh_autotools-dev_* helpers at the same > time, dh-autoreconf takes care of updating config.sub and config.guess > by itself. This is not entirely true and prevents people from applying fixes where this may be necessary. Discussion of that topic and the according change in dh-autoreconf's documentation: https://bugs.debian.org/698765 Case where running both sets of tools was necessary to fix a FTBFS: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=734765#17 Case where someone more or less rejected a patch based on the text cited above: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812428#10 So I suggest to change the above wording as follows: | In most cases you should not use dh-autoreconf and dh_autotools-dev_* | helpers at the same time, since dh-autoreconf triggers the updating | config.sub and config.guess by itself for most upstream build | systems. There are though cases where the latter does not happen and | dh-autoreconf and dh_autotools-dev_* helpers should be used | together. See https://bugs.debian.org/698765 for details. Thanks for considering. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (980, 'unstable-debug'), (600, 'testing'), (111, 'buildd-unstable'), (111, 'buildd-experimental'), (110, 'experimental'), (105, 'experimental-debug') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- no debconf information
