I demand that Gabor Gombas may or may not have written... > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:15:28AM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: >> I can see potential problems with that last part regarding upstream >> developers whose software happens to depend on packages for which >> pkg-config support remains Debian-specific because upstream doesn't accept >> the patch. It's possible that the Debian-specific nature of this support >> may simply not be noticed until bug reports start coming in from users of >> other distributions...
> Well, the only problem I can see is auto-detection (configure etc.) > behaving differently. But if we follow the "try pkg-config first, if that > failed, fall back to what detection technique we have used before" > approach, then we cannot be more broken than current upstream is. Providing suitable autoconf macros will help, at least with release tarballs; you still potentially have the problem with CVS (unless the macros are duplicated in the package source, typically via inclusion in an m4 directory). > On the other hand, autodetection is never perfect and bugs always > happen. But if we can agree that the general direction is good and worth > pursuing then we can fix bugs as they are found on the way. I'd say that it is, on condition that these changes are pushed upstream reasonably quickly. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | I don't ask for much, just untold riches... This is a test tagline; please ignore. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
