ceferino_0.97.8-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED

[Bas Wijnen]

On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 12:47:03AM +0000, Debian Installer wrote:
> Thank you for your contribution to Debian.

I uploaded ceferino yesterday.  I made the changes I described, except
for the library linking part, which appears to be a bug in
dpkg-shlibdeps (the libraries mentioned were actually used AFAICS).

I made some changes to configure.ac to make it possible to regenerate
configure.[1]  I did this directly in the file, and not with quilt.  I'm
not sure if this was a good idea, so I'll describe my thoughts.  If they
weren't right, we should correct it in the next upload. :-)

- The package doesn't compile without the changes.  A user who uses
  apt-get source ceferino and then starts changing and building things
  the non-Debian way would need to apply the patch to succeed.[2]

- The repository probably can't hold the changes.  I haven't uploaded
  the new version yet (to the repository), and I'm not sure how to add
  changes outside debian/ there, if at all.

- I wanted to do the upload before the weekend, because I don't have
  time during the weekend.  I don't know how to use quilt yet, and it
  was late so I didn't have time to learn it.  Not a very good argument,
  but I did think about that, too. ;-)

Any comments are welcome.

Thanks,
Bas

[1] This is one of the reasons I want the autotools to be run at build
    time.  If special arguments are needed, I want the maintainer to
    spend an hour on figuring them out, not the user who wants to edit
    his Makefile.am.

[2] This is only true if the user is changing configure.ac or
    Makefile.am, but I don't want to treat them specially.  The user
    should as easily be able to change those as any other source file.

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