David Welton wrote: > Xemacs21 - runs *autoconf* to generate other makefiles, which are then > run. > [...] > > Do you seem what I mean? Each of these is doing something slightly > different, and it is a bit frustrating not to see a bit more > cohesiveness. Not that any of these things are *bad*, per se, just > that there seem to be a lot of packages that do stuff like this.
Well, for this particular case (xemacs21), I think that running autoconf in the debian/rules file is "bad per se", and should be discouraged at least, if not forbidden by policy (I guess it is already forbidden by the GNU standards). Antti-Juhani wrote: > I see broken debian/rules files that should be fixed. I see the same. I also see deficiencies in the packaging system (for example, packages which apply different patches in the build process). This is a nice feature of SRPMs which we might want to implement some day in the standard tools. Thanks. -- "52910554fa610624ad65ccc69e6e2765" (a truly random sig)
