Re: Autoconf with Debian patches

[Francois-Xavier Le Bail via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>]

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> From: Francois-Xavier Le Bail <devel.fx.lebail () orange fr>
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> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 21:38:15 +0100
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> 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 to
> > Autoconf because traditionally the configure scripts were generated
> > using non-Debian Autoconf.  In practice this means that a regenerated
> > revision of a configure script almost always requires "git add -p"
> > instead of "git add".
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> > This has been discussed in some detail in [1], and my understanding is
> > that making Debian Autoconf the new standard should make this problem
> > smaller (it certainly would in my development environment).  Would
> > anybody like to make their point for or against such a switch in one of
> > the next releases?
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> > 1: https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpslice/pull/12
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> I agree to use Debian Autoconf 2.69.
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