Hi everyone, Well I've packaged automake 1.6. It seems Steve Robbins beat me slightly to the punch (http://people.debian.org/~smr), but I believe my packages to be superior since it uses debhelper and will (theoretically) install in parallel to automake 1.4 and 1.5. Here are my thoughts on what to do to fix the current automake packages in sid. For those who don't know, the major problem is that automake 1.4 and 1.5 have various incompatibilities, and they cannot be installed side by side. Automake 1.6 and later versions don't suffer from this problem, since they provide versioned binaries. Hacking 1.4 and 1.5 to install side by side may be possible, but for now they conflict. The first thing that needs to be done is to upgrade the 1.4 and 1.5 packages to their newer upstream versions to hopefully close some bugs. They should be changed to conflict with each other, but not all versions of automake. I think /usr/bin/automake should be an alternative, with automake 1.4 having the highest priority. What do people think? If there's no serious objections, I'll upload automake1.6 and start fixing 1.4 and 1.5 once its uploaded. Kevin (the current automake maintainer) seems unresponsive. Should I NMU them for now, or actually take them over? * Jordi Mallach (jordi@debian.org) wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 06:31:05PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > Well I have plenty of love to give them :) But I'm horribly reluctant > > to steal any packages out from underneath someone's nose. I suppose > > I'll email him privately (actually CC him this mail) and if he gives > > his blessing or does not respond I'll package 1.6. If he is still > > unresponsive after that is all said and done we can consider him MIA? > > Do people think that is fair? I'm not actually sure he's MIA, that's > > just the general sense I'm getting from this thread. > > I'm not sure if I finally mailed Kevin some months back about this. I > probably forgot, but at least Ivo mailed him recently, no reply still. > > Cowchelon says nothing. The BTS shows no recent activity, but I didn't > look too carefully. > > Jordi -- Eric Dorland <dorland@lords.com> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: hooty@jabber.com 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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