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by cryptonector 673 days ago
Including autoconf outputs servers to avoid having to have autoconf installed. Because autoconf installs historically lagged behind what autoconf-using projects wanted, this used to be a problem. Nowadays it's not that big a deal.

As u/nrabulinski says, you can have the CI system generate and commit (with signed commits) autoconf artifacts.

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> Nowadays it's not that big a deal.

The same can be said about autotools itself :/

Historical and current use indeed vary, and many times even using autotools itself isn't as appropriate.