FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake
Wes Hardaker
wjhns174 at hardakers.net
Tue May 6 00:17:41 UTC 2008
>>>>> On Mon, 05 May 2008 10:59:08 -0400, Brian Pepple <bpepple at fedoraproject.org> said:
BP> PROPOSAL: I'd like to keep just the following packages and would like to
BP> have release engineering to block the older packages from Rawhide:
BP> autoconf-2.61-10.fc9.noarch.rpm
BP> automake-1.10.1-2.noarch.rpm
I don't think this is helpful to developers. Those packages aren't just
used by Fedora packaging developers. They're used by anyone anywhere
who needs to maintain a build system. Different software components
require older versions of autoconf to successfully work on. Sad, but
very true. I have multiple installations of autoconf in place and I use
them all. Not because I want to, but because the base package I'm
working on doesn't work with newer versions (this is particularly true
from autoconf < 2.5 to anything > 2.5 and also true for 2.58 > 2.59 or
beyond). Fixing a configure.in file to make it portable is often a ton
of work for a big package. If it wasn't, XEmacs would have updated it's
configure.in file from 2.13 to something more recent a long long time
ago ;-)
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