Re: Automake 2.50 migration strategy, as implemented

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

On Sat, 26 May 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:

>...
> All that autobuilder maintainers, etc., should need to do, is to
> make sure that they install autoconf2.13 as well as the new
> autoconf.  This should not be challenging because the new
> autoconf Recommends: autoconf2.13 for now.  (I intend to demote
>...

Please note that many (all?) autobuilders use apt, that means a
"Recommends:" is ignored when they install packages.

You must make this a dependency to get everyone who installs autoconf to
install autoconf2.13, too.


cu
Adrian

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