[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> I'm packaging a program for multiple distributions that build-depends on >> autoconf 2.50. [...] > > You might better avoid this if you can. Packages made by autoconf do > not usually depend on autoconf for the build, that's why the configure > script is shipped within the tarball.
ok, that could work too. The upstream source does of course include the configure script. I was just using the debian/rules made by dh_make, and its clean target says: clean: dh_testdir dh_testroot rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp -$(MAKE) distclean dh_clean It's the make distclean that ends up trying to call autoconf. You're right, though, there's no reason to regenerate things unless I change configure.in. thanks, Jason