My opinion is the same as I stated it in comment 18. I think there's a risk that a latent problem might be exposed by running autoreconf and changing the build configuration. I think such a problem is unlikely to be triggered by a regular SRU or a security update, since they will generally patch without manually running *or needing to run) autoreconf, and AIUI it won't automatically run either. Therefore I don't see the benefit of landing this change in Xenial. I don't see a specific problem it would fix, nor do I see a significant future risk of a problem being exposed.
Dan says he doesn't follow my logic, so perhaps I'm missing something. If so, I'm happy for another SRU team member to make and follow a different decision. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1842947 Title: dpkg 1.19.0.5ubuntu2.2 build did not recreate 'configure' file, losing changes in 'configure.ac' To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/1842947/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
