* Joseph Carter (knghtbrd@bluecherry.net) wrote: > On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 04:12:53AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > > are basically compatible, and are certainly more compatible then 1.4 > > > > and 1.5. The reason we *might* want to keep 1.5 around is that it > > > > still works with autoconf 2.13, whereas 1.6 needs autoconf 2.52 or > > > > greater. > > > > > > Nuke 1.5, fix the packages to work with both autoconf 2.50 and automake > > > 1.6. Call it good. > > > > I agree that within debian it would desirable to do that, but some > > users might be peeved they can't use automake 1.5 anymore... > > Tough. ;) > > Seriously though, automake 1.5 never really caught on because unless you > were using autoconf 2.50+ you were basically asking for trouble. I'd be > more concerned with users who want to use autoconf 1.4 for packages > outside of Debian which don't work with anything later. It's simply > unreasonable for Debian to maintain three seperate versions of automake > for two versions of autoconf until the end of time because someone, > somewhere out there may have a package which requires a non-1.4 automake > setup which doesn't support autoconf 2.50+. > Well I've uploaded automake1.6, so once that gets in we'll see well it works on packages that depend on 1.5. Let's not make any rash decisions :) -- 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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