Bug 1678619 (gnu-config)

Summary:	Review Request: config - The GNU config.guess and config.sub scripts
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dridi Boukelmoune <dridi.boukelmoune>
Component:	Package Review	Assignee:	Neal Gompa <ngompa13>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Dridi Boukelmoune 2019-02-19 08:53:42 UTC

Spec URL: https://dridi.fedorapeople.org/review/config.spec
SRPM URL: https://dridi.fedorapeople.org/review/config-20190120-1.fc29.src.rpm
Description:
This package installs an up-to-date version of config.guess and config.sub,
used by the automake and libtool packages. It provides the canonical copy
of those files for other packages as well.

Fedora Account System Username: dridi

This is a missing dependency of debhelper that I have been using locally for a month or so to build debs locally for autotools-based projects.

Comment 1 Dridi Boukelmoune 2019-02-19 08:55:45 UTC

Scratch build for rawhide: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=32902041

I'm using it on f29.

Comment 2 Neal Gompa 2019-02-19 11:52:48 UTC

Taking this review.

Comment 3 Neal Gompa 2019-02-19 11:53:50 UTC

Is this package actually needed? redhat-rpm-config provides our config.guess and config.sub files, you could just have it install a symlink for those files to be available in that location, if debhelper really needs it there?

Comment 4 Sergio Basto 2019-10-27 04:02:15 UTC

(In reply to Dridi Boukelmoune from comment #0)
> This is a missing dependency of debhelper that I have been using locally for
> a month or so to build debs locally for autotools-based projects.

we need strip-nondeterminism for debhelper and to build with debhelper now we need add [1] to control file , but I don't see for what we need this, some example is great appreciated .
Anyway IMHO package should have the same of Debian package, i.e. autotools-dev

Thanks,

[1] 
override_dh_strip_nondeterminism:

Comment 5 Dridi Boukelmoune 2020-05-05 21:32:15 UTC

As suggested by Neal, one could instead make the redhat-rpm-config symlink those files where dpkg tooling is expecting them. I think it was needed by dpkg's support for autotools-based projects but I unfortunately no longer have the bandwidth to work on this.