Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] 0.7 debian packages - please test

[Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joachim,

> I do some weird stuff there :-)
> If no automake would be installed, the package would build fine, befause
> of the missingfiles.sh or what's that called, emulating the autotools.
> But that does not help, because the machine building the .deb might have
> autotools installed. That is why I set all autotools to /bin/true by
> environment variables in debian/rules. Therefore, the check would fail,
> so I removed that. But I still need the dependency because some parts of
> the build process need files from /usr/share/automake. The
> 15_use_automake1.9.dpatch has indeed been removed in a later version.

Wow. I'm not sure I fully understand all that, but I think this now
comes in the category of "Joachim obviously knows what he's doing" :-)
No objections at all, given it seems to work :-)

Alex