On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 06:05:22PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 06:57:20PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 08:07:27PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > On Sat, 2024-03-30 at 14:16:21 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > > This seems like a serious bug in autoreconf, but I've not checked if > > > > this has been brought up upstream, and whether they consider it's > > > > working as intended. I expect the serial to be used only when not > > > > in --force mode though. :/ > > >... > > > We might have to perform a mass rebuild to check if there could be > > > fallout out of a true --force behavior change I guess. > > > > Does gnulib upstream support upgrading/downgrading the gnulib m4 files > > (like the one used in the xz backdoor) without upgrading/downgrading > > the corresponding gnulib C files? > > Yes, although it takes a bit of effort. You can use the --local-dir > option of gnulib-tool, which allows overriding individual Gnulib files > or modules or applying patches to Gnulib files; or you can define a > bootstrap_post_import_hook function in bootstrap.conf and do whatever > you want there.
I had the impression that what Guillem has in mind is more towards adding dependencies on packages like gnulib and autoconf-archive to dh-autoreconf, which would then blindly overwrite all m4 files where a copy (same or older or newer) exists on the build system. cu Adrian
