Having heard no real objection to the plan, I will begin filing minor bugs for this transition. I'm moving in a month so I may not have time to actually start until July. * Eric Dorland (eric@debian.org) wrote: > Hello folks, > > We've accumulated a lot of automake packages in main and since we're > at the very beginning of the jessie release cycle I'd like to propose > a mass bug filing to remove all the current automake packages in > unstable (automake1.13 is in the NEW queue). Automake 1.4 in > particular is very old at this point and is unsupported. > > Automake is moving to a more rational versioning scheme so new, > non-backwards compatible automake packages should be far less common > now. See > "New versioning scheme for Automake." here: > http://gnu-automake.7480.n7.nabble.com/GNU-Automake-1-13-2-released-td20448.html. So > hopefully we can release jessie with one (or maybe two) automake > package. > > Attached are the package list generated from the command below (and > that list run through dd-list): > > grep-dctrl -n -s Package \( -F Build-Depends,Build-Depends-Indep -w > 'automake1.4|automake1.9|automake1.10|automake1.11' \) --and \( --not > -F Build-Depends,Build-Depends-Indep -w 'automake' \) /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_source_Sources -- Eric Dorland <eric@kuroneko.ca> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: hooty@jabber.com
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