"Bernhard R. Link" <brl...@debian.org> writes: > * Benjamin Drung <bdr...@debian.org> [110604 14:22]:
>> It's better to build the pre-generated files from source in case you >> need to modify the source. It's easier to just modify for example >> configure.ac instead of modifying it and figuring out how to rebuild >> the pre-generated files, especially when you do security fixes or >> stable release updates. > Changing configure.ac does not really sound like a very minimal > change to me. It often is, though. For example, I've modified several configure.ac files to just add a pattern for GNU Hurd to the pattern for Linux that controls some behavior that also works on the Hurd. It's about a seven character change. I still use the upstream's generated files most of the time because it's less complex. But I'm increasingly liking the idea of packaging an upstream release tag from a Git repository instead, at which point it's nice and clean to run the autotools during the build. The only thing that I still don't like about that is that it means the Debian packaging is based on a generated tarball that doesn't have any direct relationship with the tarball that upstream distributes. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/8739jp1mdi....@windlord.stanford.edu
