Re: [tcpdump-workers] Autoconf with Debian patches

2023-01-06 Thread Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- On Jan 6, 2023, at 3:31 PM, Denis Ovsienko wrote: > It is the latter, and a custom Autoconf seems an unreasonable > requirement for contributing. Reasonable, or unreasonable? Whatever version is chosen as the standard autoconf, if the goal is to have the version of the

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Autoconf with Debian patches

2023-01-06 Thread Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 14:49:54 -0800 Guy Harris wrote: > On Jan 6, 2023, at 2:24 PM, Denis Ovsienko > wrote: > > > On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 13:25:14 -0800 > > Guy Harris wrote: > > > >> If we switch to making Debian Autoconf the new standard and keeping > >> the generated

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Autoconf with Debian patches

2023-01-06 Thread Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- On Jan 6, 2023, at 2:24 PM, Denis Ovsienko wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 13:25:14 -0800 > Guy Harris wrote: > >> If we switch to making Debian Autoconf the new standard and keeping >> the generated configure script in the repository, would that mean >> that developers

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Autoconf with Debian patches

2023-01-06 Thread Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 13:25:14 -0800 Guy Harris wrote: > If we switch to making Debian Autoconf the new standard and keeping > the generated configure script in the repository, would that mean > that developers working from the repository would either have to > install Debian

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Autoconf with Debian patches

2023-01-06 Thread Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- On Jan 4, 2023, at 2:30 PM, Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers wrote: > As some have experienced before, attempts to regenerate the configure > script often result in two groups of unnecessary changes (runstatedir > and LARGE_OFF_T), both of which come from Debian-specific

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Autoconf with Debian patches

2023-01-06 Thread Francois-Xavier Le Bail via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- On 04/01/2023 23:30, Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers wrote: > As some have experienced before, attempts to regenerate the configure > script often result in two groups of unnecessary changes (runstatedir > and LARGE_OFF_T), both of which come from Debian-specific patches