Source: autotools-dev Section: devel Priority: optional Maintainer: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12), help2man Build-Depends-Indep: perl Standards-Version: 4.6.0 Rules-Requires-Root: no Homepage: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config/ Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/hmh/autotools-dev Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/hmh/autotools-dev.git Package: autotools-dev Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: ${misc:Depends} Enhances: cdbs, debhelper Breaks: autoconf (<< 2.70~) Replaces: autoconf (<< 2.70~) Description: Update infrastructure for config.{guess,sub} files This package installs an up-to-date version of config.guess and config.sub, used by the automake and libtool packages. It provides the canonical copy of those files for other packages as well. . It also documents in /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz best practices and guidelines for using autoconf, automake and friends on Debian packages. This is a must-read for any developers packaging software that uses the GNU autotools, or GNU gettext. . Additionally this package provides seamless integration into Debhelper or CDBS, allowing maintainers to easily update config.{guess,sub} files in their packages.