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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: Policy proposal: generate packages when autotools update
From:       Kean Johnston <kean () armory ! com>
Date:       2006-10-30 20:24:50
Message-ID: 45465F92.9090006 () armory ! com
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> There's one thing that's missing from this discussion so far.  When you
> build from a tarball, you don't actually *run* autoconf or automake.
> The package maintainer runs those before creating the tarball.  So for
> those programs at least, it should be up to the package maintainer
> to keep current.
Actually the implication was SOLELY for the maintainers, such that when
they roll tarballs they use a standardized set of tools. When building
from git I can of course ensure that the right version is being used.

Kean

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