* 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 > > -- 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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