* Dmitrijs Ledkovs <x...@debian.org>, 2012-05-31, 23:58:
- dh $@
+ dh $@ --with autotools-dev,autoreconf
"dh_autoreconf is a superset of the autotools-dev debhelper addons, so
you do not need --with=autotools_dev if you use --with=autoreconf. In
fact, in most cases they should not be used together, as it may lead
to unpredictable behaviour." (from dh-autoreconf(7) manpage)
I was not aware of this detail. My, wrong, understanding was that
autootols-dev only replaced config.sub and config.guess, while
autoreconf did autoconf, aclocal and etc. I did not know that
autoreconf replaces config.sub/config.guess. I had a doubt when adding
this ("do I need both?!"), but didn't check as I was not expecting it
to cause harm.
As far as I understand it, dh_autoreconf doesn't do anything special to
update config.{sub,guess}, other than calling autoreconf, which calls
autoconf, which updates them if needed. Note that this package don't
seem to use config.{sub,guess} at all, so the autotools-dev addon would
be redundant anyway.
Should there be a lintian guard? Or warning?
It should be easy to implement to such a check in lintian.
--
Jakub Wilk
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