Subject: Re: bug#11323: automake-1.11.4 regression

From: Ralf Corsepius <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:04:51 +0200

On 04/24/2012 10:49 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 04/24/2012 10:34 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:

>> <http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7175>
>>
>> See also:
>>
>> <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11030>
>>
> -EFAILMAINTAINER
>
> a) This kind of changes is inappropriate within a release series.
> b) You don't seem to be aware about the harmfulness of this change of
> yours.

Let me elaborate. previously it was possible to do something of this kind:

if FEATURE0
mystatedir = $(pkglocalstatedir)
mystate_DATA =

if FEATURE01
mystate_DATA += xxx
endif
if FEATURE02
mystate_DATA += yyy
endif
endif

Now you are forcing devs to manually add rules to achieve the same 
effect. Worse, if automake on packags which have not been manually added 
such manually written rules, these package end up broken (e.g with build 
errors in Linux distro-buildsystems).

Ralf