> This is exactly the point I've been trying to make for a long time, > about things like autoconf and automake1.x, and why you should > build-depend on them and run them every time. Because it proves that > we are fully self-hosting, and the main reason _not_ to do it is the > fear that we might _not_ actually be self-hosting. Which is something > I believe we've promised our users, implicitly if not explicitly. > > Clearly, many people in Debian disagree that being self-hosting is > sufficiently worthwhile, but would rather work around hypothetical > autotools incompatibilities by, essentially, running them as > infrequently as they can get away with, and hoping they catch whatever > problems show up, before uploading. (And with a tool like autoconf, > whose very _essence_ requires that it behave differently on different > systems, this seems unlikely.) > > Until Debian as a whole can agree that it is important to be > self-hosting, and to be confident enough in our autotools maintainers > to trust their packages for automated builds, I don't think you should > ask David to build a whole cross compiler. After all, that's not only > a _lot_ more complex to maintain, but more build-resources-expensive.
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