On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:47:36AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Jon Dowland wrote: > > I am considering uploading a DELAYED 7 NMU for this bug > > tonight or tomorrow. HMH, if you have plans to review the > > patch please let us know roughly when you might manage this > > and I will not upload the NMU. > > Well, I have some problems with the patch. > > I am not a groupie of the school of undue complexity so that we can revert > our build trees to whatever shit came from upstream. A debian source > package exists to build debian binary packages. I consider the entire > "revert" stuff useless complexity. > > The second one, is that it does too little. It doesn't help the configure > call with proper parameters, it doesn't help setting up debian/control > dependencies, it doesn't handle updating the autotools stuff (GNU config != > autotools, although autotools needs it). It just freshes up > config.sub/config.guess -- so the dh_autotools name is incorrect.
I have written another debhelper script (dh_autoreconf), which calls autoreconf -f -i and creates a list of files added/changed during the execution of the command. Those files are then removed by dh_autoreconf_clean. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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