Kevin Kofler wrote:
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Horst H. von Brand wrote:
>> Most package sources in SCMs don't include those files, when they are in
>> the tarballs it is for convenience AFAIU.
>>
> You are wrong - RTFM, e.g. info automake, info standards.
Software not including autotools-generated files in their SCM is actually
pretty common.
And where is the problem?
Upstream maintainers are supposed to know which versions of the
autotools they support.