Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 11896] CMake fails in source tarball generated using make

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 10:37:53 +0000

Comment # 4 on bug 11896 from 
(In reply to João Valverde from comment #3)
> What about the dist tarball could be causing this issue? I seem to remember
> hitting this problem on some rare occasions and don't recall using a tarball.
> 
> But 'make dist' is a GNU thing, it's more general than Debian. Personally I
> don't yet see the case for removing it, as long as Wireshark supports
> autotools.
'make dist' is a GNU thing indeed from the pre-git era. Git archive made it
obsolete. Just look at practically all projects hosted on GitHub. The tarballs
are generated from git tags.
I'm OK with keeping autotools for a few more months, but make dist can (and IMO
should) be removed earlier.
Keeping make dist working reliably requires building all versions twice, once
from git, once from make dist's tarball. I think that would be waste of CPU
cycles for gaining practically nothing.

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