bug#75605: aclocal: error: too many loops

2025-04-10 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Santiago - back on: aclocal: error: too many loops aclocal: Please contact . at /usr/share/automake-1.16/Automake/Channels.pm line 655. I still don't know how to improve the error message, but in response to the same bug report with another package (#77395), I found that in the p

bug#59099: 3-rd party aux files.

2025-04-10 Thread Karl Berry
Thanks for the patch, and sorry for the delayed reply. My concerns are: 1. Changing the meaning of the --libdir option so that it adds rather than replaces. We have no way of knowing if existing projects rely on that, but it's quite possible. A new option name is needed to avoid breaking compatibi