Ühel kenal päeval, P, 11.06.2017 kell 17:12, kirjutas Kristian
Fiskerstrand:
> 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.

That's a complete useless waste of time, to track some ancient packages
that don't get any upstream update anyway. The active ones have updated
it long ago. And it'd be a joke to propose last riting for the reason
of a file being named configure.in instead of configure.ac.


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