Policy proposal: generate packages when autotools update

[Kean Johnston]

> There's one thing that's missing from this discussion so far.  When you
> build from a tarball, you don't actually *run* autoconf or automake.
> The package maintainer runs those before creating the tarball.  So for
> those programs at least, it should be up to the package maintainer
> to keep current.
Actually the implication was SOLELY for the maintainers, such that when
they roll tarballs they use a standardized set of tools. When building
from git I can of course ensure that the right version is being used.

Kean