Re: Proposal for fixing automake (was Re: State of automake packages)
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 03:58:45PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
> * Joseph Carter (knghtbrd@bluecherry.net) wrote:
[...]
> > If others are willing to do the same, I think it's a safe bet that we can
> > move to 1.6 relatively easily. I say relatively because some of the
> > things that are no longer acceptable to the autoconf/automake people were
> > needed to get certain unprovided features in a sane manner. Programs
> > which do anything like this are rare enough though that most people won't
> > have any trouble. The exceptions may take some texinfo reading or some
> > person who is basically very comfortable with auto* voodoo, but I'm
> > convinced we could make short work of it.
>
> Again, this would be great, but rallying the troops to do this might
> be hard.
Count me too.
[...]
> I certainly have enough bandwidth, but how would i find all the
> packages that build-depend on automake?
Neil Spring did this job months ago, see
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200110/msg00646.html
You might also have a look at the whole thread
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200110/msg00492.html
Convince Debian developers to read
/usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz
and avoid build dependencies against auto* tools would also be nice.
Denis
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