Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (182 mails)

[Richard Guenther <rguenther@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Vincent Untz wrote:

> Le mardi 16 juin 2009, à 11:05 +0200, Richard Guenther a écrit :
> > On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Philipp submitted automake 1.11 to go into openSUSE:Factory and as it's 
> > > the 
> > > nature of automake updates - they break a lot of packages.
> >
> > On the way fixing your packages you should consider not to re-create
> > the autogenerated files in you .spec processing as this is generally
> > considered a bad thing to do.  If you have patches to automake/autoconf
> > related files consider providing patches to the autogenerated parts
> > as well and use the same automake/autoconf version to generate them
> > as upstream did.
>
> Well. It would certainly help to have the non-latest versions of
> automake in Factory to do this.

True.  I have them installed in my home directory exactly for this
purpose ;)

Richard.

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