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Re: Proposed Autoconf 2.50 path



Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> writes:

> 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

contrib and non-free aren't part of Debian so don't count.

> plus 75
> packages that depend on automake but not on autoconf (which is perfectly
> legal since automake depends and will always depend on autoconf).

Aha, I missed those.
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