Hello, We now have 5 versions of automake in the archive. These are necessary because new versions of automake tend to break backwards compatibility. We don't however need to keep all these versions around forever. So I'd like to get automake1.6 removed from the archive. The packages below have strict build-dependencies on automake1.6. It tends to be a bad idea to build-depend on the auto* tools (if for the only reason I'll be bugging you about it periodically), but if you want to continue, please transition to using automake1.7 or later (automake1.9 being the best). For most of you that should just work with no changes, if you have problems let me know. In a couple of weeks anyone who hasn't done this will get a wishlist bug filed against their package. A couple of weeks after that I will ask for the removal of automake1.6 and those bugs will be upgraded to severity serious. PS I would love if we could get rid of automake1.4. That's a bit unrealistic at this point, but if everyone can gently encourage their upstreams (and themselves) to start using later versions of automake, maybe it will be possible one day. amarok, Adeodato Simo <asp16@alu.ua.es> amaya, Steve Dunham <dunham@debian.org> boson-base, Mickael Marchand <marchand@kde.org> droidbattles, Kari Pahula <kari@sammakko.yok.utu.fi> epplets, Stephen Frost <sfrost@debian.org> facturalux, Juan Manuel Garcia Molina <juanma@debian.org> fam, Chuan-kai Lin <cklin@debian.org> freqtweak, Enrique Robledo Arnuncio <era@debian.org> gsmlib, automake1.6 isdnutils, Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org> k3d, David Martinez Moreno <ender@debian.org> kcdlabel, Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> kde-i18n, Noel Kothe <noel@debian.org> ksimus-boolean, Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org ksimus-datarecorder, Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> ksimus-floatingpoint, Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> ksociograma, Juan Manuel Garcia Molina <juanma@debian.org> lesstif1-1, Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) <sam+deb@zoy.org> libiodbc2, Christian Hammers <ch@debian.org> libnss-ldap, Stephen Frost <sfrost@debian.org> libosip, Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org> libosip2, ARAKI Yasuhiro <ar@debian.org> libtheora, Christopher L Cheney <ccheney@debian.org> libwmf, Matej Vela <vela@debian.org> lineak-defaultplugin, Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> lineak-kdeplugins, Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> lineak-xosdplugin, Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> multisync, Mikael Sennerholm <mikan@debian.org> rsplib, Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org> snort, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@computer.org> splint, Samuele Giovanni Tonon <samu@debian.org> sppc, Mikael Hedin <micce@debian.org> sweep, Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org> swscanner, Andres Seco Hernandez <AndresSH@debian.org> tapiir, Enrique Robledo Arnuncio <era@debian.org> wmfsm, Arthur Korn <arthur@debian.org> xbsql, Rafal Lewczuk <rlewczuk@pronet.pl> -- 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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