Ralf Corsepius wrote:
I clearly remember some packages which have no any ready configure script at all (probably to decrease tarball size). I.e., sometimes it is an upstream's policy to ship only configure.{in|ac} .Any package requiring them is _broken_. Such bugs should be reported upstream and fixed there. If I were to decide, I would reject any package trying to run any autotool - Packagers should learn to use patches instead. Sorry, if this sounds hard, but here, I do have a very strong opinion.
I agree that it is bad way, but if the things are working, we should not discriminate such packages...
Anyway, I've already understood why it has not been included in the BR-exception list. :)
Dmitry Butskoy Dmitry Butskoy