On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 08:01:21AM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote:
>...
> Switching to e.g. cmake means a one-time more-or-less complex manual
> transition but afterwards the packaging should be in a sane state for
> quite some time.
>
> After thinking about this for a few days I agree this is the sanest way
> to go. For the current build system, there are already some extra
> kludges (check out debian/rules if you really want to), and setting up a
> confgen emulation, probably as a debhelper extension ... while this was
> a faszinating project, it would certainly eat up some ressources to set
> up and to maintain. Also, since confgen upstream (see below) described
> the program as a hack and I subscribe to that point of view, it's
> really better to look forward, even for these old packages.
>
> Still I assume this will be my job - however, the changes will go
> beyond a sound NMU size. So I'll send out patches, and eventually go
> the package salvaging way.
>...
Any update on that?
I might provide fixes for some packages otherwise, but these would be
autotools conversions since that's the tools I know best.
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>...
cu
Adrian
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