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Remove obsolete Debian notes from HACKING

PATCH Applied David Frey 2 participants 3 messages Mar 5, 2018 – Mar 6, 2018 Bluetooth drivers

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cover Remove obsolete Debian notes from HACKING

The automake package versions referenced in the commit message are from here:

Debian 9 (stable)
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=automake&searchon=names&exact=1&suite=stable&section=all

Debian 8 (oldstable)
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=automake&searchon=names&exact=1&suite=oldstable&section=all

David Frey (1):
Remove obsolete Debian notes from HACKING

 HACKING | 11 +----------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)
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PATCH 1/1 Remove obsolete Debian notes from HACKING

The HACKING document says that Debian's automake version doesn't satisfy the automake >= 1.10 requirement, but this is no longer true. The automake version in Debian 8 (oldstable) is 1.14 and the version in Debian 9 (stable) is 1.15.

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 HACKING | 11 +----------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)
HACKING +1 -10
index 87762f1e0..e10986fcb 100644
@@ -5,16 +5,7 @@ Build tools requirements
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 When building and testing directly from the repository it is important to
-have at least automake version 1.10 or later installed. All modern
-distributions should default to the latest version, but it seems that
-Debian's default is still an earlier version:
-
-  Check version
-    # dpkg -l '*automake*'
-
-  Install new version
-    # apt-get install automake1.10
-    # update-alternatives --config automake
+have at least automake version 1.10 or later installed.
 
 
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Hi David,

Quoted 7 lines · David Frey

The HACKING document says that Debian's automake version doesn't satisfy the automake >= 1.10 requirement, but this is no longer true. The automake version in Debian 8 (oldstable) is 1.14 and the version in Debian 9 (stable) is 1.15.

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 HACKING | 11 +----------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)

Applied. Thanks.

Johan