Hi! Maxime Devos <maximede...@telenet.be> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès schreef op vr 01-04-2022 om 10:58 [+0200]: >> As a first milestone, maybe we could start running ‘autoreconf’ more >> often, for packages higher in the graph. We could change the >> ‘bootstrap’ build phase to do that unless it’s explicitly turned off. >> It may turn out to be a Sisyphean task though… >> >> Thoughts? > > Changing all pre-existing packages, maybe. But doing this for new > packages (reducing review effort) and perhaps when a package is updated > (for purity) should be feasible I think? Then gradually things would > improve and eventually(TM) doing the switch in the bootstrap phase may > become feasible ... Yes, we could do that as a first step (in fact it’s already happening as some projects no longer distribute tarballs). What do maintainers think of that policy? Thanks, Ludo’.
