On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 05:48:00AM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: > W. Martin Borgert: > > On 2016-10-12 21:41, Vincent Bernat wrote: > >> ❦ 12 octobre 2016 18:54 CEST, Martín Ferrari <tin...@tincho.org> : > >>> I had always understood that rebuilding from source was a hard > >>> requirement. Is this not the case any more? > >> > >> This has never been the case. Since the beginning, there was no > >> requirements to regenerate autoconf stuff. > > > > I personally see auto* more critical than minified JS. > > The chance that it is impossible to rebuild is higher :~) > > > > Quoting https://wiki.debian.org/Autoreconf: > > "Autoreconfing on build is good practice in Debian." > > Not required, but recommended. > > > > [...] > > > > Personally, I am hoping we will soon reach critical mass on > "autoreconf'ing" and will be able to flip the "Not required" to "Required". > This should happen on its own as people convert their packages to > debhelper compat 10.
which is not possible for everyone who cares about backporting their packages. Mike
