Bug#787860: make seahorse friendly to all gpg versions

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Fri Jun 5 21:02:03 UTC 2015


On Fri 2015-06-05 15:41:07 -0400, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 05.06.2015 um 21:33 schrieb Michael Biebl:
>> On Fri, 05 Jun 2015 14:57:40 -0400 Daniel Kahn Gillmor
>>> (the attached patch touches both ./configure.ac and ./configure -- since
>>> the package appears to be doing autoreconf, maybe the modifications to
>>> ./configure are unnecessary)
>
> We do not patch ./configure directly but resort to dh-autoreconf in such
> cases for two reasons
> 1/ The patch doesn't need updates on each new upstream release
> 2/ It's simpler to forward the patch to upstream

I agree with both of these reasons.  They're why i like to dh-autoreconf
on other packages too.

> And yes, seahorse already uses dh-autoreconf, so you can drop the bits
> which touch ./configure.

Attached is a revised simplified patch, which only touches configure.ac
and pgp/seahorse-pgp-backend.c.

Would you be willing to apply it to the debian package?  That would be
great!

Thanks,

        --dkg

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