Bug#746514: Autoreconf during build

2014-04-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 01:34:05AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 04/30/2014 10:36 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > Package: debian-policy > > It seems that a lot of packages do not use something like > > autoreconf during build, and every time someone starts a new > > port he has to patches way too m

Bug#746514: Autoreconf during build

2014-04-30 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 04/30/2014 10:36 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Package: debian-policy > > It seems that a lot of packages do not use something like > autoreconf during build, and every time someone starts a new > port he has to patches way too many packages to get config.guess > and config.sub updated. Do you have

Bug#746514: Autoreconf during build

2014-04-30 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:36:34PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Package: debian-policy > > It seems that a lot of packages do not use something like > autoreconf during build, and every time someone starts a new > port he has to patches way too many packages to get config.guess > and config.sub upd

Bug#746514: Autoreconf during build

2014-04-30 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Package: debian-policy It seems that a lot of packages do not use something like autoreconf during build, and every time someone starts a new port he has to patches way too many packages to get config.guess and config.sub updated. I would like that we say that at least config.guess and config.sub