On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 16:41 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>> "AW" == Adam Williamson
<awilliam(a)redhat.com> writes:
AW> The most authoritative thing I can find in the Wiki seems to frown
AW> on the practice of patching configure.ac in the first place:
AW>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/AutoConf
Toshio already mentioned that this isn't in any way policy; I just
want to reinforce the point that anyone can write anything anywhere in
the wiki that sounds like packaging policy.
I understand this, hence the qualified use of 'most authoritative'.
AW> If this is not in fact the agreed policy, I'd expect the
agreed
AW> policy to show up more prominently in a Wiki search for
AW> 'autoconf'. :)
There is no guideline relating to the use of autoconf. The situation
is analogous to the absence of American federal legislation regulating
the acceptable colors used to paint bike sheds.
I would say this is an area where consistency of method is important. If
discussion has dragged out with no decision being taken that's a shame,
but I think it's not wasted effort to try and come up with an agreed and
enforced policy for how changes to autotools-managed build scripts
should be handled.
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