On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 13:58, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 06 Nov 2003, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > debhelper puts the following into the "clean" rule in debian/rules: > > > > ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)" "" > > cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub > > endif > > ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess)" "" > > cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess > > endif > > It would be cleaner (for the diff) to: > 1. build-depend on autotools-dev > 2. use ln -sf instead of cp -f. > > Of course, for that to work, you HAVE to rm -f both files in the > clean target, and do the ln -sf before you call configure.
Should I email this to the debhelper script maintainer? > Anyway, whatever you do, you are to keep these files up-to-date. Even if the program I'm packaging doesn't use autotools (I have a vague understanding that perhaps they're needed for cross-platform autobuilds and have to stay, but haven't got a clear answer yet...)? > See the autotools-dev readme file. thanks zenaan
