On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:40:30 +0200, Enrico Weigelt <weig...@metux.de> wrote:
> I've collected several rules that upstreams should follow to make > distro maintainer's life much easier: > > http://www.metux.de/index.php/de/component/content/article/57.html > > Free feel to comment on it :) About autoconf stuff: - Why require autogen.sh? On a release, configure script should be present. No need to rebuild it. Some users just don't have recent enough autotools to rebuild the configure. Moreover, with modern autotools, I tend to think that autoreconf -i is just as simple as autogen.sh. - Why require building in a separate tree? Why it helps, most of the packages we have just build in the same source tree. - Not using AC_TRY_RUN is too strong. This macro has a parameter to be used when cross-compiling. It is more useful to detect a problem when not cross-compiling with AC_TRY_RUN than to not detect it at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/0668dd331505dad9896cff083909a...@chopper.luffy.cx
