On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 02:07:31PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org> wrote: > > >> Description : debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after > >> the build > >> > >> Package: dh-autoreconf > > I'd suggest just putting this into debhelper rather than making it a > separate package.
Well, Joey wrote the following: > Regarding including these commands in debhelper, I am uncertian because > these commands would not be included in the default dh sequences, or the > example rules files, and that would be a first -- currently every > command in debhelper is included in the dh sequences and all except dh_auto_* > are included in the longer example rules files. > > Adding an optional command to debhelper that likely does not do the > right thing for a fairly large percentage of packages (my experience > with running autoreconf and having it actually work, in the real world, > is not exactly stellar) would be a departure. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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