Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Michal Čihař <ni...@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Dne Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:10:24 +0300
>> Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> napsal(a):
>>
>>> Like lintian, your list falsely includes packages that use cdbs to build,
>>> which automatically updates config.{sub,guess}.
>> If you don't build depend on autotools-dev, nothing can be updated (at
>> least it was case for my package which uses dh).
>
> Speaking of autotools-dev, that package seems somewhat outdated.
> Upstream config.{sub,guess} is newer than what's in autotools-dev, for
> example, and the /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz
> documentation does not accurately describe modern autotools.
Putting the maintainer explicitly in the loop. It seems the maintainer
is still tracking the cvs version while upstream changed to a git
repository:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
> I don't think overriding config.{sub,guess} in debian packaging is the
> right solution without forwarding the problem report upstream. It is
> not a debian specific problem.
Right.
Cheers
Luk
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