Bug#746514: Autoreconf during build

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:36:34PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> 
> It seems that a lot of packages do not use something like
> autoreconf during build, and every time someone starts a new
> port he has to patches way too many packages to get config.guess
> and config.sub updated.
> 
> I would like that we say that at least config.guess and config.sub
> must be updated during the build process and that things like
> configure should be regenerated during the build process.

I would also like to add that it must always be possible to
regenerate something like configure, and I consider it to be an
RC bug if you can't do (missing source or can't be build from
source).


Kurt