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Re: Removal of automake1.5



* Eric Dorland (eric@debian.org) wrote:
> * Branden Robinson (branden@debian.org) wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 08:19:54PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
> > > Well I'm hoping to get rid of automake1.5. It's buggy, unsupported
> > > upstream, and 1.6 and 1.7 can generally work with Makefile.am's
> > > written for 1.5. We already have automake1.4, automake1.5, automake1.6
> > > and automake1.7. I'd like to get rid of automake1.5 before automake1.8
> > > comes out.
> > [...]
> > > Here is the list of offending packages (28):
> > [...]
> > > And here's a list of maintainers of those packages:
> > 
> > You should probably send this to debian-devel-announce.  Developers are
> > not required to be subscribed to debian-devel, and so may not be aware
> > of this message otherwise.
> 
> Yes, I was torn between doing that and not, because of it's somewhat
> limited interest. But since you've seconded it, I feel much more
> justified :)

You could have just email'd the appropriate maintainers.  If you really
felt like telling everyone then you could have sent an email to d-d-a
saying that too, though I don't think it'd have been necessary.

	Stephen

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