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

Luca Capello luca at pca.it
Sun May 17 19:50:21 UTC 2009


Hi there!

On Sat, 16 May 2009 19:14:11 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 15.05.2009, 22:26 +0100 schrieb Enrico Zini:
>> 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)

Here is the full thread at Gmane:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.package-management.vcs-pkg/333

And while reading it I found that something was already discussed this
month on d-devel (and I did not remember it, while I *thought* I read
d-devel...):

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/140187

>> 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.

Exactly, thank you for the clarification, Joachim!

I have now read the whole thread Enrico linked and it seems that both
world coexists.  Since I am more comfortable with not shipping
autotools-generated files, I would leave the package as it is and let me
see what the FTPmasters thinks about it.  Is it OK for the other team
members?

FWIW, I would say that the xserver-xorg-dev description suggests to
build-depend on autotools:

  Description: Xorg X server - development files
   This package provides development files for the X.Org ('Xorg') X
   server.
   This is not quite the same as the DDK (Driver Development Kit) from the
   XFree86 4.x and X.Org 6.7, 6.8 and 6.9 series of servers; it provides
   headers and a pkg-config file for drivers using autotools to build
   against.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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