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

[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.


Ciao,

Enrico

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