[pkg-synfig-devel] Re: synfig: 337516: time to upload

[Paul Wise]

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 11:37 +0200, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:

> You're right. I reran ./bootstrap and fixed the timestamp problems by
> touching the needed files just before configure runs. No more build-time
> autoconf'ing.

Cool

> What's confusing me is the bootstrap script and the fact that some files
> that are common in autotools build systems seem to be missing, like
> configure.in and autogen.sh. The bootstrap script seems to actually be
> doing the job of autogen.sh, but I don't know exactly what the
> functional difference is, if any.

configure.ac is in the config directory. I believe autogen.sh/bootstrap
scripts are depreciated in favour of autoreconf. I think the difference
between autogen.sh and bootstrap might be the ability to deal with
putting configure.ac into a subdir.

> I noticed that the bootstrap script overwrites a lot of things....
> We should really go over which files are generated and which are the
> canonical templates -- and primarily make our changes in the templates,
> not in the generated files.

Now that I have upstream SVN access, I can make the required changes
there if needed.

> Enough of this, now. A TODO.Debian should be created to keep us on
> track.

Indeed.

> I uploaded 0.61.04-1, tagged it in SVN and committed a change with only
> a dummy changelog entry. So we're now waiting for NEW processing and can
> improve the packaging in the meantime. :)

Yay!

> Also, please send all further stuff to the development mailing list.

I subscribed David using the admin interface, hope you don't mind
David :) Only sending this message to the list.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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