Bug#600467: can someone end this finally?

[Gergely Nagy]

Roman Vasiyarov <rvasiyarov at gmail.com> writes:

> Notes:
> - debian/rules: ./autogen.sh may require build-depend on automake (or
> w/e beast).
> i don't know if running ./autogen.sh is appropriate (changing source
> one-way?), but that seemed way better than autoreconf/libtoolize
> manual patching every time

You could build-depend on dh-autoreconf, and use something like this in
debian/rules:

override_dh_autoreconf:
	dh_autoreconf ./autogen.sh

%:
	dh $@ --with autoreconf

(Assuming debhelper v8+ compatibility level)

dh-autoreconf will reconstruct the original autotools stuff upon clean,
and it depends on the autotools suite (autoconf, automake, libtool)
aswell.

Note: I did not look at the actual diff, it's just the note that caught
my eye.

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