Package: dh-autoreconf Version: 14 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Dear maintainer,
please update the dh-autoreconf man page to reflect recent changes: * it no longer needs to be enabled explicitly when using debhelper compatibility levels >= 10 * the debhelper commands provided by autotools-dev are being superseded by the dh_update_autotools_config debhelper command [1] I've added a suggestion as patch. Thank you Lukas Schwaighofer [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debhelper-devel/2017-August/006303.html
diff --git a/dh-autoreconf.pod b/dh-autoreconf.pod
index b3647d3..e7683ae 100644
--- a/dh-autoreconf.pod
+++ b/dh-autoreconf.pod
@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ dh-autoreconf - debhelper add-on to run autoreconf during build
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-The dh-autoreconf package provides a sequence addon for debhelper 7 which
-can be used in the following way:
+The dh-autoreconf package provides a sequence addon for debhelper 7 and is
+enabled by default since compatibility level 10. For earlier compatibility
+levels it can be enabled in the following way:
#!/usr/bin/make -f
%:
@@ -34,9 +35,6 @@ You can add support for -Wl,--as-needed to ltmain.sh (at least for those
ltmain.sh scripts changed during autoreconf) by passing the argument
B<--as-needed> to dh_autoreconf, as demonstrated in the following example:
- #!/usr/bin/make -f
- %:
- dh $@ --with autoreconf
override_dh_autoreconf:
dh_autoreconf --as-needed
@@ -63,10 +61,11 @@ Or, if you use CDBS:
=head1 CAVEATS
-dh_autoreconf is mostly a superset of the autotools-dev debhelper addons, so
-you do not need --with=autotools_dev if you use --with=autoreconf, as long
-as your autoreconf updates the config.guess and config.sub files. If it does
-not, feel free to use both together.
+dh_autoreconf is mostly a superset of the dh_update_autotools_config debhelper
+command included in debhelper since version 9.20160115. When using the dh
+sequencer, dh_update_autotools_config is run before dh_autoreconf and updates
+the config.guess and config.sub files. This is required in cases where
+autoreconf does not update config.guess and config.sub itself.
From time to time, there might be a short breakage for those using
automatic ltmain.sh patching, when the patch no longer applies to
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