On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 08:15:10PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 05:12:17PM +0100, Sirius wrote:
> > I have seen discussion about shifting away from the whole auto(re)conf
> > tooling to CMake or Meson with there being a reasonable drawback to CMake.
> > Is that something being discussed within Debian as well?
> It's not in general something that Debian can unilaterally change. And
> in a number of cases switching build system would be pretty non-trivial.
What we can do unilaterally is to disallow vendoring those files.
Does it help? At least in the case of autoconf it removes one common
source of hard to read files.
Bastian
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