226421 – media-gfx/showimg: autotools are being rebuilt through maintainer-mode

Bug 226421 - media-gfx/showimg: autotools are being rebuilt through maintainer-mode

Summary: media-gfx/showimg: autotools are being rebuilt through maintainer-mode

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team

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Blocks:	bad-autotools
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Reported:	2008-06-13 20:27 UTC by Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED)
Modified:	2009-02-09 00:53 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-06-13 20:27:49 UTC

Rebuilding autotools through maintainer-mode is _not_ good, because it usually means you forget to add dependencies, and they'll magically use the same version as used by upstream, which might not be what the user have installed at all.

If you patch Makefile.am or configure.in/configure.ac you _have to_ use autotools.eclass and eautomake/eautoreconf. Exceptions are granted _only_ for system packages that would make it impossible to run autotools during stagebuilding.

Please fix your package.

Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-02-09 00:53:38 UTC

Fixed in 0.9.5-r1.