FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 17:10 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 02:02:50PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > 
> > It would have forced upstreams to learn about their long-term
> > lazyness/sloppyness is going to evolve into "badness" by being
> > confronted with a "the train has left the station" effect.
> 
> Packages that has not been released since long can still use old
> autotools version without that being an issue. And then it is practical
> to be able to rerun the autotools for such packages.
Off-line, yes .. no need to make them part of the distribution.

Ralf