Re: Proposed Autoconf 2.50 path

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On 25 May 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no> writes:
>
> > * Ben Pfaff
> >
> > | Only 88 packages according to `zcat Sources.gz | grep-dctrl -F
> > | Build-Depends -s Package autoconf':
> >
> > This list is not complete - you are, for instance, missing
> > intuitively.
>
> Hmm.  I must have been working from an incomplete Sources.gz.
> Here's another try (197 total), based on
> 	ftp://debian.egr.msu.edu/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/Sources.gz
>...

I do count (including contrib, non-free and non-US) 208 packages plus 75
packages that depend on automake but not on autoconf (which is perfectly
legal since automake depends and will always depend on autoconf).


cu
Adrian

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