FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Tue May 6 03:44:42 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 23:43 -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote:
> >   
> The gain is we decide what to keep and what not to keep based on who 
> actually is willing to fight to keep it around rather than whoever feels 
> like complaining on devel list. Its a corollary to "its easier to 
> apologize than to ask permission," the people who notice the change are 
> a tiny and far more important subset than the people who will complain 
> ahead of time.


I don't see any gain here. Just make-work. And I don't see why one
should have to fight for keeping necessary build tools around. 




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