[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#558570: Bug#558570: Missing autoreconf to fix 554821 or similar bugs in the future

[Martin Pitt]

Michael Biebl [2009-11-29 13:44 +0100]:
> I'm also not a big fan of running autoreconf during build, as this will blow up
> the diff.gz, so I guess I'd have to say WONTFIX for now.

Neither am I. autotools have broken too often in the past had had been
a huge pain. It has become much better since autoconf 1.10 and
automake 2.50, but still I don't like packages which do autoreconf at
build time for two primary reasons:

 * They are prone to break when there is a new version of auto*.

 * You upload something that you did not actually test.

Just my 2 cents,

Martin
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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
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