On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 at 21:13:58 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Would you mind if I took those aspects of your mail to debian-devel ?
Nothing in this thread is private, and I believe all of it is already
cc'd to the public bug report #864028.
I suspect that contradicting how we have always asked upstreams and
Debian maintainers of Autotools-built packages to behave is at best an
unproductive and tedious "boil the ocean" task and at worst actively
harmful to our relationship with major upstreams like GNU, but if you
think there will be consensus that current practice is wrong, go ahead
and try to establish that consensus...
S
