On 11.03.2017 14:30, Nicolas Boulenguez wrote: >>> # 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.
yes, this sounds fine, although I think we should keep the D changes separate, and apply them after the Ada changes are applied (didn't check what happens if we don't unpack the gdc tarball and still apply the toplevel patch).
