* Junichi Uekawa (dancer@netfort.gr.jp) wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 22:47:11 -0700 > Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@bluecherry.net> wrote: > > > > I had an impression that newer version of automake required > > > newer version of autoconf, which was nowhere near compatible. > > > > It's compatibile for most things. There are a few thou-shalt-nots which > > cause the new version to be broken, but they're easily fixed in almost all > > cases. They just require someone to actually do the fixing. > > "Compatible for most things" and "it can be fixed up manually" > is not good enough :P > > Really, a real solution would be to fixing things which build-depend on > "automake" to depend on "automake1.6" or "automake1.4" or whatever. > > Not dumping automake1.6 to be "automake". I'm not suggesting that at all. I'm just saying that /usr/bin/automake should be an alternative provided by the various automake packages. The automake 1.4 package would have the highest priority for now for the autobuilders. > a) Dumping automake1.6 to be automake will require: > > 1. autobuilders (or me) noticing the problem > 2. autobuilders (or me) filing bugs on individual packages > 3. maintainers, or QA people (or me) fixing and uploading the package > Again, i'm not suggesting this. > b) Changing the individual packages to build-depend on automake1.6 or > automake1.4 will require: > > 1. maintainers, or QA people (or you??) fixing and uploading the package > > > When "automake" is pulled away, packages which still depend > upon automake should be obvious in b, while it won't be obvious > at all in a. > > a. is a more convoluted way of fixing the problem at hand. > b. is better in that it costs less for Debian Project as a whole, in total. > I agree, a. is the better solution. > > Note that most packages won't be autobuilt unless some crazy > fanatic starts rebuilding the whole archive for the fun of it. > Which makes solution a less attractive. > > > regards, > junichi > > -- Eric Dorland <dorland@lords.com> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: hooty@jabber.com 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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