On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, Resul Cetin wrote: > 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?
No. I never had to do any maintenance on a CDBS-using package. But I did recall they had provisions for calling the configure chain properly. > > 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? I meant neither of you. That's the general way things get done in Debian, and I am puzzled how, in autotools' case, it got switched from "try to do it right" into "do it wrong, because it is easier and the bomb will go off on someone else's lap". I am not willing to discuss this further, it will piss me off. Just to make it clear: I am waiting for a revised version of the patch, with a different name. The current one will NOT get merged. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
