FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

[Matthias Clasen]

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 23:28 -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote:

> In light of this, I have a proposal:
> 
> We fix our specs to not use autoconf, and remove the old versions as 
> stated, but we keep them around, perhaps in another branch in CVS or 
> simply removed from the F10 tag. Then we just wait for complaints. If 
> someone comes in and says "I was actively using that" we can just slap 
> it back in. After one release cycle we can flush the rest.
> 

And we do all this work because we have nothing better to do ?
Whats the gain, again ?