Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > CDBS does a lot more setup to ease autotools usage, maybe it would be a
> > > good idea to look at what it does, and try to translate a more
> > > complete set of functionality for a "dh_autotools"? That will either
> > > need some hooking to debhelper internals, or two separate tools, one
> > > for clean, the other for pre-config setup.
> >
> > CDBS tells use "don't do that... just copy config.guess and config.sub
> > and later restore everything".
>
> Then they're going (again) against the best practice.
>
> > CDBS can be asked to update libtool, autoconf, and automake files, but
> > this behavior is likely to break the build system and is STRONGLY
> > discouraged
>
> Strongly discouraged by whom? The peanut gallery?
The cdbs author. Ever read the cdbs doc?
>
> You're encouraged to do it right. If you're not going to do it right, then
> it is best that you don't break it worse. How THAT became "you're STRONGLY
> discouraged to autoretool", I don't know.
This tells the cdbs author not I. Do you ever read the stuff you referring to?
Best regards,
Resul
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