Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> writes: > It's a bit risky if we don't do a mass rebuild after a new > autotools-related package upload. I still see quite a lot of warnings > if I re-run the tools on older sources, but these days, most builds seem > to work out alright.
Yeah, most of the warnings are about underquoting, and *usually* m4 ends up doing the right thing anyway. > Given that it makes this makes it more likely that patches that require > rerunning the tools work out cleanly, it seems a good idea overall. My impression from doing this in about ten packages is that it's more likely to break things than a new gcc release for C code but less likely than a new g++ release for C++ code or a new major Perl release for Perl packages. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/87eh0vzm4g....@windlord.stanford.edu
