autoconf and epel-5

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 16:41 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "AW" == Adam Williamson <awilliam at 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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