Re: Re: Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-04-01 Thread Fabian Greffrath
It seems that we could also read the requested versions of automake and autoconf from debian/control and export them automatically using: [...] Does this sound like a good idea? IMHO this sounds like a very good idea. Consequently, dh_autoreconf should become a no-op if autoconf is missing

Re: Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-03-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org wrote:   Description     : debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build Package: dh-autoreconf I'd suggest just putting this into debhelper rather than making it a separate package. -- bye, pabs

Re: Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-03-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 02:07:31PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Package: dh-autoreconf I'd suggest just putting this into debhelper rather than making it a separate package. Seconded. The addons looks quite general, I don't see the point of having it in a separate package. Cheers. -- Stefano

Re: Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-03-31 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 02:07:31PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org wrote:   Description     : debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build Package: dh-autoreconf I'd suggest just putting this into

Re: Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-03-31 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 03:13:14PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org wrote: Description : debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build Package: dh-autoreconf I'd suggest

Re: Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-03-31 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org wrote: Description : debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build Package: dh-autoreconf I'd suggest just putting this into debhelper rather than making it a separate

Re: Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-03-31 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
Julian Andres Klode wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 03:13:14PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org wrote: Description : debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build Package:

Re: Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-03-31 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 31.03.2010, 15:45 +0200 schrieb Mehdi Dogguy: Julian Andres Klode wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 03:13:14PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org wrote: Description : debhelper add-on to

Re: Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-03-31 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 03:45:14PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: Julian Andres Klode wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 03:13:14PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org wrote: Description : debhelper add-on to

Re: Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-03-31 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 31/03/2010 15:45, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: I do use autoreconf and I don't have these changes in my diff. Do you remove the modified files in your clean target ? (removed files will be ignored when creating the diff but you need to list them explicitely in debian/rules: this is what I do

Re: Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-03-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Julian Andres Klode wrote: IMO, a backup/restore script (where you specify the list of files to backup) may be more useful. It would be called before build and when cleaning. I don't think so, it requires you to keep track of the files and you may miss some. OTOH,

Re: Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-03-31 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
Julian Andres Klode wrote: A 'debuild; debuild' should have a different result than a single debuild then. If you build from a clean directory, the first build will contain no changes. But after the build, the directory is not clean anymore and debian/rules clean does not do enough to keep the

Re: Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-03-31 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 04:46:00PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: Julian Andres Klode wrote: A 'debuild; debuild' should have a different result than a single debuild then. If you build from a clean directory, the first build will contain no changes. But after the build, the directory is not

Re: Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-03-31 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
Julian Andres Klode wrote: A backup and restore approach is a completely different and more complicated (in I/O sense) way than just deleting the files; e.g. for a single file: … except that they do not operate on the same set of files. dh_backup's list would be a lot smaller than

Re: Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-03-31 Thread Axel Beckert
Julian Andres Klode wrote: Is there any advantage to have it packaged? AIUI, you have to add a build-dependency anyway and change at least one line in the debian/rules to call dh-autoreconf. Well, that line could simply call autoreconf (or whatever) which even makes debian/rules

Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-03-30 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org * Package name: dh-autoreconf Version : 1 Upstream Author : Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Perl Description : debhelper add-on to call autoreconf

Re: Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

2010-03-30 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 06:15:26PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org * Package name: dh-autoreconf Version : 1 Upstream Author : Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org * License : GPL-2