Re: autoreconf --force seemingly does not forcibly update everything

On 4/1/24 11:54 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
 > Last month, I spent 2 days on prerelease testing of coreutils. If, after
 > downloading the carefully prepared tarball from ftp.gnu.org, the first
 > thing a distro does is to throw away the *.m4 files and regenerate the
 > configure script with their own one,
 >    * It shows [...]

FWIW: especially the downstream builds of the 'coreutils' package have been
using 'autoreconf -fi' for a long time, because the upstream tools do not
have full I18N support, and the large I18N patch is in use e.g. at Fedora,
openSUSE and Debian probably since >15 years.
Nowadays, the coreutils-i18n.patch [1][2] gets smaller and smaller because
upstream is adding I18N step by step in one tool or another.
But we're still not there yet, unfortunately.

[1]
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/coreutils/blob/main/f/coreutils-i18n.patch
[2]
https://build.opensuse.org/projects/openSUSE:Factory/packages/coreutils/files/coreutils-i18n.patch?expand=1

Have a nice day,
Berny