Greetings all, Pursuant to my email to debian-devel-announce a few months back, I will now be filing bugs on all the packages that build-depend on automake1.5. automake1.5 is a buggy, unsupported piece of software that I would like to see gone from the archive. Luckily, my previous message seemed to have spurred many into action, as only 21 source packages have automake1.5 in their Build-Depends line, and of those only: apcupsd centericq fluidsynth freefem gnucash krb4 libquicktime modlogan ogmtools pdns shadow xkbd xkeysw xt-aterm yank Have strict build-deps on automake1.5. So if you maintain a package in the above list, snap to it :) I'll be filing the bugs tomorrow at some point so if you want to spare yourselves from a bug report let me know before then. In general, build depending on *any* version of automake is a bad idea. Just run automake on your source tree and ship the Makefile.in's in your .diff.gz. If you must, then getting away from 1.5 is generally a pretty painless process. If anyone needs help with making the jump to automake 1.7, please don't hesitate to contact me. -- Eric Dorland <eric.dorland@mail.mcgill.ca> 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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