On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:16:49PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Hi Sebastian, > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 09:13:32AM +0100, Sebastian Reichel wrote: > >On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 04:09:44AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >>Hi Sebastian, > >> > >>On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:59:10PM +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote: > >>>Please consider adding something like > >>DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_GETTEXTIZE. >gettextize generates files needed > >>by the other commands configured >via DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_*! > >> > >>I finally got around to looking at this suggestion. > >> > >>When is it needed to _update_ these files (as opposed to > >>generating them)? Can you perhaps provide an example? > > > >I just want them to be generated :) I need this feature for > >tarballs, which had no autofoo files from the beginning. > > Thanks for clarifying. > > Essentially CDBS is about isolating common patterns. (that's the "C" > in the name). > > There are relatively clear patterns of how to refresh some common > autotools parts. There is (to my knowledge) no similarly clear > patterns of how to bootstrap projects either distributed > non-bootstrapped upstream or grabbed from a VCS snapshot.
one can just use the same rules, which are used to refresh the "common autotools parts", the only missing thing is gettext. For example I do this in phonefsod: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-fso/phonefsod.git;a=blob;f=debian/rules > kannel-sqlbox is an example of using autoreconf (which should also > invoke autopoint - supposedly the successor of gettextize) > > gmerlin-avdecoder is a newer, slightly more compact example of using > "touch aclocal.m4" and tuning a couple of autotools options (not > sure if that will cover your need or not). > > I suggest look at those and tell me if such approaches are > acceptable to you, and we can close this bugreport. > > If not acceptable, then please help convince me of some "common > pattern" in this (including the cleanup routines!), or we will most > likely keep the bugreport open but tag it as wontfix. I think we can close this bugreport because of the package "dh-autoreconf", which I found after I did this bug report. I suggest to give a hint in the CDBS documentation, that there is a package providing autoreconf routines, though. -- Sebastian
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