Hello.

The attached archive contains more or less intrusive suggestions for
the Debian packaging of libtool. test_build.diff attempts to gather
all differences in the resulting .debs.  I hope that each difference
(or No such file or directory message) will be explained by a commit
header.

Two corner cases deserve a commentary.

Since commit 'Use dpkg-dev snippets for architecture, build flags and
package version', LDFLAGS is exported into the global environment and
probably affects more subprocesses than before.  That is why LTCFLAGS
in /usr/bin/libtool now contains -Wall. This seems correct, but if
not, it should be sufficient to remove 'DPKG_EXPORT_BUILDFLAGS:=1' and
add explicit assignments before './configure' or explicit exports
after ovreride_dh_auto_configure:.

In /usr/bin/libtool, the BINCC and BINCXX parts are swapped. This is
because commit 'Merge patching in an editor script, empty
dependency_libs in installed .la' requires some work.

Please review these changes.  These are local Git commits, so it would
be easy to translate them into a merge request if you are more
comfortable this way.

Thanks.

Please append the attached diff to the list.  It fixes an error in the
last commit.

Hello.

It seems that you have applied some suggestions in 2.4.7-5.
Thanks.

By the way, this version is not visible in the version control system
on salsa.

A new list of commits is attached.  I have rebased the remaining
changes on 2.4.7-5, removed some intrusive ones, add new ones, and
split some large commits in order to make the review easyer.

Hello.
The attachments are roughly the same suggestions, rebased on the
debian/latest branch.
There were a lot of merge conflicts and duplication of efforts,
as can be expected after 5 years.
You might want to check the commit fixing DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nodoc
before next release.

(Sorry if this arrives twice.
A first attempt with each commit in its own attachment seems lost.)