* Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> [140415 02:06]: > Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > > > Nevertheless, with these mass filings where we add en masse the same > > option to many packages, I wonder if we are doing something wrong. > > Don't we use debhelper and CDBS to have reasonable defaults ? Are there > > more packages that fail to build after autoreconf, than packages that > > fail to build without ? > > There are certainly more packages that fail to build *on amd64* after > autoreconf than packages that fail to build without. So it depends on > what your priorities are. :)
Arguably this means that we're shipping files without source (preferred form of modification etc.), because with our tools the generated configure (and other files) can not be regenerated. I consider software where bootstrapping configure fails to be buggy; usually it prevents extending the software without huge effort. -ch -- ,''`. Christian Hofstaedtler <z...@debian.org> : :' : Debian Developer `. `' 7D1A CFFA D9E0 806C 9C4C D392 5C13 D6DB 9305 2E03 `-
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