On 06/11/2017 05:07 PM, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> Ühel kenal päeval, P, 11.06.2017 kell 10:00, kirjutas William Hubbs:
>> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 01:04:06PM +0100, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
>>> On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 13:28:19 +0200
>>> Jeroen Roovers <j...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426262
>>>> +          mv configure.{in,ac} || die
>>>
>>> Looks good.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>>
>>>   Sergei
>>
>> -1
>>
>> I think this should be handled by the packages, not at the eclass
>> level.
>>
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426262#c3
>>
>> The packages should either mv the configure.in to configure.ac
>> internally, or better yet, the maintainers should ask upstream for
>> their
>> packages to fix it.
> 
> +1, otherwise we will never be able to add/unmask a newer autoconf that
> doesn't look at configure.in anymore, once such a version eventually
> happens.
> 

We can always patch the eclass at that point if that is still a big
concern, but I fundamentally agree with William on this, starting point
should be fixing it upstream, so can start with a tracking bug on
affected packages.

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