On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 09:58:47PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > What's up with the automake packages? > The initial problem at least is that "compatible" is not a word most > people choose to describe automake 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6. Well, yes... I know what happened when the automake package switched to 1.5, but I guess we can't stick with automake 1.4 forever... > If an application was written to use automake 1.4 or before, automake > 1.4 is the latest version of automake you can use to generate the > Makefile.ins for it. This is the majority of applications, and will > probably remain so for quite some time. That isn't true for all cases. Just to put an example, nano does well with both 1.4 and 1.5. My concern, in any case isn't incompatibility problems in automake releases. If we need to use an "automake1.6" package, I'd welcome it too. The problem is the bad state of these pacakges. Even 1.4 isn't up to the last release (1.4-p5, #127347). People *need* automake1.6, it's blocking other packages from being updated. I could create such source package, but I don't know if assigning it to Kevin would be nice... Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez || jordi@pusa.informat.uv.es || Rediscovering Freedom, aka Oskuro in || jordi@sindominio.net || Using Debian GNU/Linux Reinos de Leyenda || jordi@debian.org || http://www.debian.org/ http://sindominio.net GnuPG public information: pub 1024D/917A225E telnet pusa.uv.es 23 73ED 4244 FD43 5886 20AC 2644 2584 94BA 917A 225E
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