All is not so nice

• Even a flawlessly autotool’ed package can cause problems

  • Can have been bootstrapped with a buggy version of libtool
  • A package bootstrapped in 2001 can not know about an architecture from 2005

• Sometimes the maintainer is at fault

  • debian/rules runs a bootstrap process
  • debian/rules or diff.gz blindly patch random autotools files

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