Hello,
On trečiadienis 02 Gruodis 2009 02:43:18 Joey Hess wrote:
> Modestas Vainius wrote:
> > * Isn't this a perfect use case for a build system specific option
> > (#543507)? You could enable this config.sub handling in autoconf.pm if
> > e.g. --autotools- prep is passed to dh_auto_*. In my opinion, inventing
> > another two dh_* commands is kind of overkill since this
> > config.{sub,guess} stuff is pretty much autoconf specific. What is more,
> > this way not only dh users could benefit from this but also packages
> > calling dh_auto_{configure,clean} directly.
>
> Maybe, if the option failed when autotools-dev was not installed, so
> that builds are consistent.Of course. Actually, this option must fail if autotools-dev is not installed. Maintainer did A (specified the option), but didn't do B (didn't add autotools-dev build-depend for the package) => bug in the package, i.e. FTBFS. -- Modestas Vainius <modes...@vainius.eu>
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