[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#558570: Bug#558570: Missing autoreconf to fix 554821 or similar bugs in the future

[Michael Biebl]

Peter Fritzsche wrote:
> Source: libatasmart
> Version: 0.17-1
> Severity: minor
> User: peter.fritzsche at gmx.de
> Usertags: missing-libtool-update
> 
> I did a rebuild of all packages which are affected by bug #554821. As it seems
> your package doesnt do the needed autoreconf needed for libtool. When doing
> autoreconf or the needed sequence of different autotools/libtool utilities the
> package should be able to fix the problem automatically.

Hm, I'm not sure if it is a good idea to do a mass bug filing when there is no
libtool version available yet, which fixes the problem.
I'm also not a big fan of running autoreconf during build, as this will blow up
the diff.gz, so I guess I'd have to say WONTFIX for now.

Imho such changes are best pushed upstream aggressively so they will trickle
down eventually.

Another idea would, that binutils-gold changes its version string in a way, that
existing libtool scripts will detect it as a libtool implementation which
supports anon_versioning. This way you wouldn't have to change hundreds of
existing packages.

Cheers,
Michael

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