[Pkg-clamav-devel] redo debian/rules with less dh for clamav

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior sebastian at breakpoint.cc
Mon Mar 24 08:02:29 UTC 2014


On 2014-03-23 20:22:36 [-0400], Scott Kitterman wrote:
> The beauty of dh-autoreconf is that it does and then undoes reconfigured each time so there's nothing to worry about. We don't need a patch.
Yes, it undoes mostly what it did. "git diff" shows differences but
thatis okay.

> >I think it's better, if the unstable package builds as is in all 
> >supported releases.
> 
> The drive for running reconfigured is primarily for supporting newer ports and other features as they are added.  This isn't a concern for oldstable, so not reconf'ing there is perfectly fine. 

For new ports "--with autotools_dev" should be enough because you do not
need to redo the Makefiles but simple config.guess and frieds to
guess new uname and so on.

> It is better if it builds unmodified for all releases, but it doesn't have to build identically. 

I don't mind having this. Anyway, we can drop it around May once Wheezy
is one year old and Debian drops support for oldstable :)

> It looks like it's getting really close to ready. I want to wait until late in the week to upload again to see if we get any more Debconf translations in. There is time yet to make sure it's sorted. 

Andreas fixed it already.

> 
> Scott K

Sebastian



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