Bug#690014: getting rid of the config.guess/sub problem when bootstrapping new ports/systems
+++ Paul Wise [2012-10-09 09:27 +0800]:
> On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 12:26 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Paul, separately, if you haven't already, could you request that the
> > Lintian checks for outdated config.guess/config.sub be updated for
> > whatever version you need for arm64? We could also recommend
> > dh_autoreconf at the same time, which might resolve a lot of these
> > problems going forward.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, filed:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/690014
I had a go at this yesterday, updating some files but then realising
that I didn't understand how lintian is put together. The current
tests distinguish between 'out of date' (currently 2006) and 'ancient'
(currently 2001), but don't apply equally to .guess and .sub, which
seems odd to me. I thought that june 2012 (ie including aarch64) was a
good new definition of 'out of date', but I'm not sure what 'ancient'
should be moved up to. 2005 ish?
Wookey
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