autotools (Re: Accepted gnome-system-monitor 2.7.0-0ubuntu6 (source))

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 02:40:01PM +0100, Daniel Stone wrote:

>    * Add autotools-dev to Build-Deps, only ever patch configure.in rather than
>      configure.

Once we get around to having Ubuntu packaging guidelines, this is going to
be officially deprecated.  The right thing to do is to run the autotools
when building the source, not when building the binaries.  If the packaging
tools make this inconvenient, then we'll fix the packaging tools.

Meanwhile, please avoid running autoconf at build time.

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 - mdz