Hi,
If you say "The examples need to be updated", this should be true :-)
This should be done with the update of README.Debian.gz. There, you
have 3 ways to package source that uses autotools:
1. --> This should have reference to the use of dh-autoreconf package
providing dh_autoreconf and dh_autoreconf_clean commands.
example:
dh --with autoreconf $@
2. --> no change.
3. --> This should have reference to the use of autotools-dev package
providing dh_autotools-dev_updateconfig and
dh_autotools-dev_restoreconfig commands.
example:
dh --with autotools-dev $@
If one does not use these prepackaged modules and implements simple
script to do this, one tends to face big patch issue. You should
mention new dpkg has a nice feature to help this. You can provide a
Perl regular expression to the --extend-diff-ignore option argument of
dpkg-source(1) to ignore changes made to the autogenerated files. You
can automate this by creating file debian/source/options . For example:
--
extend-diff-ignore = "(^|/)(config\.sub|config\.guess|Makefile)$
--
When you write updates, please also mention if it is useless to do
things like:
dh --with autotools-dev --with autoreconf $@
I guess "dh --with autoreconf $@" is enough.
Osamu
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