Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:03:24PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:47:41PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:55:03PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: > > > No, I don't want to force a version, I want the package to force it. > > By forcing a version I mean doin

Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-18 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:47:41PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:55:03PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:29:59PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > > > If you're willing to do things by forcing a particular version in the > > > general case then this sounds m

Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:55:03PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:29:59PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:08:47PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: > > OTOH if the standard Debian build process jumps through unusual hoops > > like forcing regeneration of all t

Re: Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-18 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008, Colin Watson wrote: > This isn't true if you just let the patch be applied by dpkg-source -x, > since the timestamp-handling bug I mentioned earlier was fixed. It might > be true if you use a less capable patching system. ;-) Eh you and me know I was referring to dpatch, sim