tracking upstream's git repo and autotools

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> [2008.02.17.0033 +0100]:
> I would just Build-Depend on autoconf, automake, and the like and run them
> during the build.

This is generally frowned upon in Debian, at least I think they
should not be build dependencies.

See this thread:

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/03/threads.html#00425

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