Bug#565860: still exists in 0.4.4-2

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am 20.01.2010 11:23, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> 11:20<siretart`>  I used to prefer to ship patches against configure
>                    and Makefile.in's, but as time passes by, I changed
>                    my mind
> 11:20<siretart`>  debian's maintenance on autofoo tools has improved
>                    dramatically, IME

Funny coincidence. :)

> Idempotency is preserved if the clean target removes all intermediate
> files.

Yes, the maintenance effort of keeping up with the list of files to be 
removed should be about the same as refreshing a patch, I admit.

> The price for this is the build dependency on autotools-dev and relying
> on working autotools packages. I think we can afford both, but YMMV.

It's not that I don't trust the autofoo Debian packages. It's just 
that I think "why repeat the same steps again and again on every 
buildd if you already know the results and can apply them a priori?".

Cheers,
Fabian


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