[debhelper-devel] Bug#480576: debhelper and dh-autoreconf

Wookey wookey at wookware.org
Fri Jun 12 16:57:20 UTC 2015


I would second the opinion that running dh-autoreconf by default is
something that should be expected to work. In practice it does work
except for old and languishing packages that have very old autofoo:
those need some updates. Often very simple ones, but in a few cases
deeper ones. See (https://wiki.debian.org/Autoreconf for useful info)

So I would like to clarify whether there is a plan to do this in debhelper
for level 10 or not, as mooted in this bug
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=744915#25

Maintainers (at least one) seem to be expecting it:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=788321#20
but perhaps that is premature?

Is the situation 'yes, if someone sends patches', or 'yes, it's
underway', or 'maybe, sometime', or 'no never, it's a dumb idea' (or
something else)?

cheers

Wookey
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