[pkg-fso-maint] xf86-video-glamo and autoreconf stuff

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Freitag, den 15.05.2009, 22:26 +0100 schrieb Enrico Zini:
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 02:28:13PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
> > For the first upload to pkg-fso, I opted for debian/rules calling
> > `autoreconf -i` at build targed.  This obviously is far from optimal,
> > because AFAIK it means that if you build the package with two different
> > autoconf versions you can end with different optimisation/configuration.
> > 
> > Is there any official Debian documentation about such a situation?  I
> > mean, what is the maintainer expected to do?  Generate a fake
> > .orig.tar.gz with every autoreconf stuff?
> 
> I've recently learned that people are more and more ok with running
> autoreconf at build time:
> 
>  http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/vcs-pkg-discuss/2009-March/000508.html
>  (and followup)
> 
> That thread had more followup (you'll find it popping up in the list
> archives in the following months, but becoming more and more obscure)
> and the thing that I've learnt of it is that people are happily running
> autoreconf when needed and it solves more problems than it causes.

while I don’t have a strong opinion here, I want to point out that your
link discusses the case where there is an upstream tarball, with
automake-output, where you need to change the automake-sources, and
where you do not track upstream git. Luca’s case is without upstream
tarball (therefore no automake-output), probably no changes to automake
sources, and the desire to track upstream’s git.

(I didn’t read the whole thread, though, maybe that case come up as
well.)

Greetings,
Joachim

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