> > # cd src && autogen Makefile.def > > This would drop two thousand lines of noise in > > debian/patches/bootstrap-no-unneeded-libs.diff > > debian/patches/gdc-libphobos-build].diff > > plus a bit more in the Ada patches. Actually, around 1600 with future libgnatvsn patches.
> > - Gcc-7 already Build-Depends: autogen for unrelated reasons. > I didn't see that the autogen dependency is still there. The reason I was > trying > to avoid it was bootstrapping. autogen depends on guile which I wanted to > avoid. > I'll look if autogen is used for other cases besides generating the toplevel > Makefile.in. See at least the debian/changelog entry of 4.9-20140330-1. If the dependency can be dropped, I suggest that we at least isolate all changes affecting src/Makefile.in into a single patch towards the end of the patch queue, so that refreshing the patches only requires one autogen run, and the noise does not pollute interesting files.
