Bug#836759: proftpd-dfsg: please drop the build dependency on hardening-wrapper

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 10:56:12PM +0200, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> Am 06.10.2016 um 22:20 schrieb Mattia Rizzolo:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > I can sponsor the upload if you want, but before I'd like to see more
> > changes done, meaning:
> > 
> > 6) run dh_autoreconf
> > 
> Tried to implement this according to [1]. I gave me an FTBFS (log attached).

That's configure.in being buggy.  I quickly asked to a friend of mine
(jrtc27) whom speaks autotools (I don't really), and in about 5 minutes
he came up with https://paste.debian.net/890189/
Apparently this is a requirement since 2001:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commitdiff;h=e3e7e0a0afcbb870bec9a34d22fe0750393c40a1;hp=aa8dfa178d82db0fae8f5b0692f74e33763a263d
Unless I'm missing something, this also means upstream did not run
autoheader in the last 15+ years?!

I suggest you bring that upstream, not being able to run
    autoreconf -f -i
on a autotools project is IMHO a bug that ought to be fixed.

> Not sure if I did the steps in wrong order, but this should be rather
> independent of dh compat level (step 5) and configure call.

Nah, the order of the points doesn't really matter (I numbered them only
for convenience)

> The fact that we have a local copy of libltdl (#561748) doesn't make things
> easier.

Doesn't seem to matter in this case, though of course that's a bug.

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