Re: Autoconf 2.50

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@msu.edu> immo vero scripsit

> So far, it sounds like most of the bugs are either in packages or
> shared between autoconf and packages.  I'll hold off for at least
> a few days, then, on deciding whether to revert.

I have a strong feeling that mpich's configure won't work with 2.50.
It would be nice to have a "backward-compatible" version of autoconf.

Otherwise, we probably are introducing a bunch of 
"can't build from source" bugs by silently upgrading autoconf.

This is in my humble opinion, though.


It would be nicer if I could Build-Depends: autoconf-2.13
or have a autoconf-2.13 package to build the configure scripts.



regards,
	junichi

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