[Build-common-hackers] Bug#525849: Bug#525849: cdbs: call libtoolize with -i to install missing files

[Peter Eisentraut]

On Monday 27 April 2009 17:12:12 Martin Pitt wrote:
> Mathias recently fixed autotools-files.mk.in in Ubuntu's cdbs to call
> libtoolize with -i to install missing files. I believe this is a good
> idea to do in Debian as well.

libtoolize -i affects the following files, as far as I can tell: config.guess, 
config.sub, install-sh.  cdbs already handles the first two, and the last 
should be unnecessary to update.  So what is the use case?