On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 01:34:05AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> On 04/30/2014 10:36 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > Package: debian-policy

> > It seems that a lot of packages do not use something like
> > autoreconf during build, and every time someone starts a new
> > port he has to patches way too many packages to get config.guess
> > and config.sub updated.

> Do you have numbers?
> There is dh_autotools-dev which works well and should be a default indeed.

This bug shadows a discussion on debian-devel:

  https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/04/msg00342.html

The consensus there is that we should use dh_autoreconf over
dh_autotools-dev.

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