Package: autoconf-dickey Version: 2.52+20101002-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Affects: autoconf
Hi, Thanks very much for packaging Thomas's autoconf variant! This is way better than having to use pre-generated configure scripts for some of his packages. As a fork of autoconf, autoconf-dickey shares bugs with autoconf, and maintaining them as separate codebases means there are two places to patch instead of one. That is an upstream problem, not a problem created by the packaging. So much for background. Now the request: would it be possible to incorporate the autoconf-dickey features into mainline autoconf, as a syntax variant requested with a build-time or compile-time option? That is, I'm suggesting replacing minimizing the delta and then replacing source files with the equivalent of "diff -D" output. I realize this would be a difficult project, hence the severity. The purpose of this report is mostly to have a place to coordinate work. Best wishes, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
