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Re: Proposal for fixing automake (was Re: State of automake packages)



* Junichi Uekawa (dancer@netfort.gr.jp) wrote:
> Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> immo vero scripsit:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Hmm.. it's not an alternative if it is not compatible.
> It's like bison and yacc, gpc and gcc.

Well to some degree they are compatible. I think a better analogy
would be the various vi clones. They all sort of do the same things,
but they are not necessarily compatible.
 
> They are alternative ways of doing one thing, but they are not
> necessarily compatible.
> 
> I don't see problems with having different packages conflicting 
> with each other.

Well the point is newer versions of automake do not need to conflict
with each other.

> regards,
> 	junichi
> 
> 

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