28 Jan
2008
28 Jan
'08
7:28 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:12:44AM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
There are 26 versions of 16 distinct packages that use build-type: Configure. [...] Of those 5 have no configure file:
directory-1.0.0.0 mersenne-random-0.1 old-time-1.0.0.0 process-1.0.0.0 Win32-2.1.0.0
So all the ones apart from mersenne-random are core packages. People tend not to build these since they're already installed. Incidentally the Win32 one is old (as is unix).
Most of these are packaging errors: directory, old-time and process should have configure files -- they need extra-source-files entries. Win32 should have build-type Simple. So apart from these it's just Don.
So, what's the verdict? Take a hard line or not? Seems to me we could get away with it.
Yes, could be.