* Russ Allbery: > It's an interesting question whether we should just force > dh-autoreconf in debhelper unless the package maintainer explicitly > turns it off. It would save me work, just as I've now been able to > take overrides back out of all of my packages now that dpkg defaults > to xz compression. But it would be disruptive, and some packages > would definitely fail to build afterwards.
The correct long-term fix is to change autotools to check a list of well-known paths for more recent versions of the scripts and use them instead of what is provided in the package. The current autotools setup implicitly assumes that most users run on a hostile system where GNU tools are available under /usr/local at best, but thankfully, the world has moved on (mostly). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87a9bjwuj0....@mid.deneb.enyo.de
