Re: Bug#307488: please upgrade to newer libtool (libtool1.4 being removed)
On Tue, 03 May 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:
> > On Tue, 03 May 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> >> > libtool1.4 is no longer maintained and will be removed from the
> >> > archive after sarge is released. Please upgrade your package to use a
> >>
> >> What about the fact that there are packages which still need it? You
> >
> > They are broken right now, and will have to be fixed, since libtool
> > 1.4-generated breakage will not be tolerated in etch.
>
> Why not fix libtool 1.4 not to generate the breakage?
The fix *is* to update to a new libtool :) It is like trying to fix
mozilla in stable so that it is 100% safe...
> Still, as long as the people pushing the change are willing to chip in
> with their shoulder to the wheel in "fixing" unbroken packages that
> currently use libtool 1.4, I don't care. Steve Langasek did his part
Evidently that is what we will be trying to do...
--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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