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>> Good thinking!  Although as a Debian/Ubuntu developer I could take
>> offence at your comment... ;-)
> It would be good thinking if I built Trinity with autotools… it was
> not the case, so I am clearly wrong.
> And I didn't intend any offence, since I understand that Debian/Ubuntu
> patches are not always intended to be merged upstream (the Qt3
> dpkg-architecture patch is obviously in this case, for example).

I know that. :-)  I should clarify that even though I build packages for,
and use, Ubuntu on a regular basis, I do NOT agree with some of their
design decisions.  So I am sort of a "rogue" Debian/Ubuntu developer I
guess, who would like to see more standardisation in Linux in general.

Tim