Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 05:05:48PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> It's an interesting question whether we should just force dh-autoreconf >> in debhelper unless the package maintainer explicitly turns it off. It >> would save me work, just as I've now been able to take overrides back >> out of all of my packages now that dpkg defaults to xz compression. >> But it would be disruptive, and some packages would definitely fail to >> build afterwards. > So arguably, such a behavior change should be tied to a debhelper compat > level change. Oh, hey, good point. That would eliminate most of the disruption problem. > But I think we ought to switch to autoreconfing by default. Agreed, particularly given that we now have a good and fairly reliable tool for doing so. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87a9bn781g....@windlord.stanford.edu
