[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#446756: Bug#446756: ntp: Please provide a description how autotools.patch is generated

[Elimar Riesebieter]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 the mental interface of
Peter Eisentraut told:

> Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2007 schrieb Elimar Riesebieter:
> > > Which part is unclear?  Using quilt or running the autotools?
> >
> > Running autotools. Is it
> >
> > aclocal -I m4 && autoheader && automake -a && autoconf && rm -rf
> > autom4te.cache
> 
> I think it depends on what you changed.  autoreconf should work most of the 
> time.  I don't recall there being a specific process for generating that 
> patch.
> 

A patch generated with autoreconf is different from autotools.patch
in the package? The autotools.patch from ntp-4.2.4p3 can't be
refreshed via quilt 'cause there are FAILED hunks.

Elimar