On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:27:52PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > Hi *, > I'm packaging gnome-translate (ITP #292909), and everything builds fine. A > lintian check on the .changes file throws: > > E: gnome-translate source: outdated-autotools-helper-file config.guess > 2003-07-02 > > What am I supposed to do? I believe that Build-Depending on autotools-dev | > automake is not sufficient, as it seems that those files won't be updated > anyways. Should I update them manually? This will introduce those changes in > the .diff.gz outside the debian/ dir
Build-Depend on autotools-dev, move the ofending files aside and put the new copy in thier place before running ./configure, copy the originals back at the end of clean. Autotools-dev's documentation contains an explanation for all this dance, and code snippets, IIRC.
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