Unsafe autotools symlinks in repository

[coldtobi]

While updating the Debian package I saw that there are some (absolute) symlinks in the repository.
This is bad for several reasons:

• it hardcodes the autotools version, so it may break on the users machine.
• Those symlinks are potentially unsafe, see https://lintian.debian.org/tags/source-contains-unsafe-symlink.html

autotools can be instructed to copy the files instead of symlinking it. See autoreconf(1), but it would even better if you completly drop the generated files and let the user regenerate it using autoreconf. (usually projects provide a autogen.sh to do that). Autoreconf should be preferred anyway, as it is nice to distributions and porting to other architectures.

Thanks for considering!