[Debian-med-packaging] biosig 2.5.2 - uploaded but required strange workround patch

[Alois Schlögl]

Am 10/19/23 um 19:07 schrieb Alois Schlögl:
>
> Am 10/19/23 um 13:29 schrieb Andreas Tille:
>> Hi Alois,
>>
>> I just want to confirm that I uploaded biosig 2.5.2.  I had this way
>> earlier on my desk but procrastinated it quite some time since the clean
>> target failed right from the beginning.  I've never seen any output
>> of autoconf tools where config.status was called in Makefile. In any
>> case I had to use this patch
>>
>> https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/biosig/-/blob/master/debian/patches/fix_clean_target.patch
>>
>> to get the package building.  For Debian its probably best to ship the
>> Makefile.am file and drop the Makefile at all to get straightforward
>> builds.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>     Andreas.
>>
>
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
>
> thanks for looking into this.
>
> The questionable section was motivated by [1], I'll need to check 
> whether this is really needed, and what advantage this provides.
>
> And yes, the "Makefile" should not be part of the distribution, as 
> configure will generated those from Makefile.in
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>    Alois
>
>
>
> [1] 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Automatic-Remaking.html#Automatic-Remaking
>


Hi Andreas,


I've been looking into this and I do not understand that code anymore.
Also when reading the autoconf documentation [1,2] does not help.
An it seems this automatic-remake does not work as intended, or I'm 
missing something.
Therefore, I've removed this [3].
Or to you see any advantage in keeping this section ?

Moreover, I plan to make a new release in the next days.


Best,
   Alois



[1] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Automatic-Remaking.html#Automatic-Remaking
[2] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.71/html_node/Automatic-Remaking.html#Automatic-Remaking
[3] 
https://sourceforge.net/p/biosig/code/ci/97e594de30d264b86f353b3793f56deb2f4f6d9e/

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