It seems unnecessary to patch both configure and configure.in. The following diff against python-modules svn HEAD eliminates the patch against configure and runs autoconf after configure.in has been patched. Build-tested.
-- Robert Edmonds [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index: debian/patches/01_configure.diff
===================================================================
--- debian/patches/01_configure.diff (revision 1164)
+++ debian/patches/01_configure.diff (working copy)
@@ -14,51 +14,6 @@
exit 0
@DPATCH@
-diff -Nur mod_python-3.2.8.orig/configure mod_python-3.2.8/configure
---- mod_python-3.2.8.orig/configure 2005-10-28 11:06:22.000000000 -0500
-+++ mod_python-3.2.8/configure 2006-05-16 08:38:20.000000000 -0500
-@@ -2706,19 +2706,21 @@
- ALL="dso"
-
- # check Apache version
-- echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking Apache version" >&5
--echo $ECHO_N "checking Apache version... $ECHO_C" >&6
-- HTTPD="`${APXS} -q SBINDIR`/`${APXS} -q TARGET`"
-- ver=`$HTTPD -v | awk '/version/ {print $3}' | awk -F/ '{print $2}'`
-- echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $ver" >&5
--echo "${ECHO_T}$ver" >&6
-+# peterh: Remove apache version check for debian package, since we don't
-+# want to build-depend on apache2.
-+# echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking Apache version" >&5
-+#echo $ECHO_N "checking Apache version... $ECHO_C" >&6
-+# HTTPD="`${APXS} -q SBINDIR`/`${APXS} -q TARGET`"
-+# ver=`$HTTPD -v | awk '/version/ {print $3}' | awk -F/ '{print $2}'`
-+# echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $ver" >&5
-+#echo "${ECHO_T}$ver" >&6
-
- # make sure version begins with 2
-- if test -z "`echo $ver | egrep \^2`"; then
-- { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: This version of mod_python only works
with Apache 2. The one you have seems to be $ver." >&5
--echo "$as_me: error: This version of mod_python only works with Apache 2. The
one you have seems to be $ver." >&2;}
-- { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
-- fi
-+# if test -z "`echo $ver | egrep \^2`"; then
-+# { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: This version of mod_python only works
with Apache 2. The one you have seems to be $ver." >&5
-+#echo "$as_me: error: This version of mod_python only works with Apache 2.
The one you have seems to be $ver." >&2;}
-+# { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
-+# fi
-
- # determine LIBEXEC
- echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for Apache libexec directory" >&5
-@@ -3035,7 +3037,7 @@
- # get the mod_python version
-
- MP_VERSION=`awk '/MPV_STRING/ {print $3}' src/include/mpversion.h`
--MP_VERSION=`echo $MP_VERSION | sed s/\\"//g`
-+MP_VERSION=`echo $MP_VERSION | sed 's/"//g'`
-
- # get --with-python-src. The python src is required to generate the
documentation
- # It is not required to compile or install mod_python itself
diff -Nur mod_python-3.2.8.orig/configure.in mod_python-3.2.8/configure.in
--- mod_python-3.2.8.orig/configure.in 2005-10-28 11:06:22.000000000 -0500
+++ mod_python-3.2.8/configure.in 2006-05-16 08:40:23.000000000 -0500
Index: debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- debian/changelog (revision 1164)
+++ debian/changelog (working copy)
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
[ Piotr Ozarowski ]
* Added watch file
+ [ Robert S. Edmonds ]
+ * Patching the generated configure script is wrong and unnecessary.
+ (closes: #370234)
+
-- Piotr Ozarowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 6 Jun 2006 13:39:06 +0200
libapache2-mod-python (3.2.8-1) unstable; urgency=low
Index: debian/rules
===================================================================
--- debian/rules (revision 1164)
+++ debian/rules (working copy)
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
dh_testdir
# Add here commands to configure the package.
- autoconf
# Don't configure here (see install)
# -./configure --enable-EAPI --prefix=/usr --mandir=\$${prefix}/share/man
--infodir=\$${prefix}/share/info
touch configure-stamp
@@ -54,6 +53,8 @@
# Add here commands to install the package into
debian/libapache-mod-python.
#$(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/libapache-mod-python
+ autoconf
+
# python 2.3
rm -f config.cache config.status
export PYTHON_BIN=/usr/bin/python2.3
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