On sam., 2014-09-06 at 16:02 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Hi Yves-Alexis! > > * Yves-Alexis Perez <cor...@debian.org>, 2014-09-06, 12:55: > >lintian has checks for “correct” dates of config.{guess,sub} in the > >source package, especially for support for newer architectures. > > > >I didn't check but I guess it drops the warning in case debian/rules > >use autoreconf command or dh applet, since then the files will be > >updated at build time. > > Not quite. Lintian has a list of packages that can be used for updating > config.{sub,guess} (see data/cruft/autotools), and it optimistically > assumes that if you have any of these in Build-Depends, then your > d/rules takes care of updating the files.
Ok :) > > >Can xdt-autogen (from xfce4-dev-tools package) be added to the list of > >commands dropping the warning? The command does the job of updating > >autotools files (plus some Xfce specific stuff). > > Don't you need to put automake in Build-Depends to be able to use > xdt-autogen? That should be enough to satisfy Lintian. > It's in xfce4-dev-tools recommends and is usually brought by build-essential anwyay, I guess. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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