Post-stretch mass bug filing: build-depending on automake1.11
Most packages in Debian that run autoreconf currently build-depend
directly or indirectly on automake (version 1.14.1 in jessie, released
2013; version 1.15 in stretch/sid, released in 2015). However, 58
packages in sid still build with automake1.11, released in 2009. This
doesn't seem desirable for buster.
I am *not* planning to report these bugs as RC, unless the release team
or the automake1.11 maintainer want to remove automake1.11 from
buster entirely (if so, please let me know).
Most of the packages that I've glanced at so far seem to have moved
from an ancient version (often automake1.4 or automake1.9) to 1.11.
In the past, Automake had a tendency to break compatibility
between minor releases, making it desirable to lock the build system
to the specific version that upstream used. However, recent versions
have been queueing up incompatible changes for 2.0 instead (as
described in the Automake 1.14 release notes,
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2013-06/msg00009.html>)
so maybe many of these packages can track 1.x indefinitely?
A dd-list follows, generated by:
grep-dctrl -FBuild-Depends,Build-Depends-Arch,Build-Depends-Indep \
automake1.11 \
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_*_source_Sources \
| dd-list --dctrl
Nothing seems to have a runtime dependency on automake1.11, at least
not on amd64 or i386. A couple of these packages build-depend on
automake (>= 1.11) | automake1.11, but to be honest they'd probably be
better off with just automake (>= 1.11) anyway, so I haven't filtered
those out.
Regards,
S
---- dd-list of affected packages ----
Adrian Knoth <adi@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de>
jack-audio-connection-kit (U)
Andrew Lee (李健秋) <ajqlee@debian.org>
scim-chewing (U)
Andy Spencer <andy753421@gmail.com>
aweather (U)
Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>
libnfsidmap
Barry deFreese <bdefreese@debian.org>
qonk (U)
Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>
xpilot-ng
Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
libjpeg6b
libjpeg8
ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) <czchen@debian.org>
scim-chewing (U)
Christoph Egger <christoph@debian.org>
warzone2100 (U)
Chrysostomos Nanakos <cnanakos@debian.org>
tcpstat
Chuan-kai Lin <cklin@debian.org>
fam
Clément Stenac <zorglub@debian.org>
madplay (U)
Debian Accessibility Team <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
svox
Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
qonk
warzone2100
Debian Gauche Maintainers <pkg-gauche-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
gauche
Debian GCC Maintainers <debian-gcc@lists.debian.org>
cloog-ppl
Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>
trinityrnaseq
Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
icecast2
jack-audio-connection-kit
libshout
pd-iemmatrix
unicap
Debian OCaml Maintainers <debian-ocaml-maint@lists.debian.org>
cairo-ocaml
Debian PHP Maintainers <pkg-php-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
php7.0
php7.1
Debian Printing Team <debian-printing@lists.debian.org>
ijs
Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
agg
aumix
Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
ann
aweather
lhapdf
Debian Science Team <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
freefem3d
Debian XMPP Maintainers <pkg-xmpp-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
gsasl
Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org>
urlview
Florian Maier <contact@marsmenschen.com>
smartmontools (U)
Free Ekanayaka <freee@debian.org>
jack-audio-connection-kit (U)
Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
g15mpd
libg15render
Giulio Paci <giuliopaci@gmail.com>
basilisk2 (U)
Giuseppe Iuculano <iuculano@debian.org>
smartmontools
Guillaume Pellerin <yomguy@altern.org>
icecast2 (U)
libshout (U)
Hakan Ardo <hakan@debian.org>
avr-libc
gcc-avr
HIGUCHI Daisuke (VDR dai) <dai@debian.org>
uim
IME Packaging Team <pkg-ime-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
scim-chewing
IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) <umlaeute@debian.org>
pd-iemmatrix (U)
Jens Thiele <karme@karme.de>
gauche (U)
Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
basilisk2
cstream
icecast2 (U)
ijs (U)
jack-audio-connection-kit (U)
kannel-sqlbox
libshout (U)
pd-iemmatrix (U)
unicap (U)
Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>
smartmontools (U)
Jordà Polo <jorda@ettin.org>
exult
Jorge Salamero Sanz <bencer@debian.org>
gsasl (U)
Jose Luis Tallon <jltallon@adv-solutions.net>
libsieve
Junichi Uekawa <dancer@debian.org>
jack-audio-connection-kit (U)
Jérémy Lal <kapouer@melix.org>
basilisk2 (U)
Kiwamu Okabe <kiwamu@debian.or.jp>
uim (U)
Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
madplay (U)
Lifeng Sun <lifongsun@gmail.com>
lhapdf (U)
Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>
php7.0 (U)
php7.1 (U)
Luca Bruno <lucab@debian.org>
openocd (U)
Mad Maintainers <pkg-mad-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
madplay
Martín Ferrari <tincho@debian.org>
qonk (U)
Marvin Stark <marv@der-marv.de>
syrep
Mathieu Parent <sathieu@debian.org>
svox (U)
Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
cloog-ppl (U)
Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>
exult (U)
Michael R. Crusoe <crusoe@ucdavis.edu>
trinityrnaseq (U)
Michael Tautschnig <mt@debian.org>
cloog-ppl (U)
diagnostics
NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe@fsij.org>
gauche (U)
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@debian.org>
uim (U)
OHASHI Akira <bg66@debian.org>
liece
Ondřej Surý <ondrej@debian.org>
php7.0 (U)
php7.1 (U)
Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
warzone2100 (U)
Peter Eisentraut <petere@debian.org>
source-highlight
Phil Brooke <pjb@debian.org>
xpilot-ng (U)
Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>
hercules
Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>
jack-audio-connection-kit (U)
Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>
muttprint
Romain Beauxis <toots@rastageeks.org>
cwiid
icecast2 (U)
libshout (U)
Roman Haefeli <reduzent@gmail.com>
pd-iemmatrix (U)
Rudy Godoy <rudy@stone-head.org>
torcs
Sam Clegg <samo@debian.org>
madplay (U)
Samuel Mimram <smimram@debian.org>
cairo-ocaml (U)
Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>
svox (U)
Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
gsasl (U)
Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org>
basilisk2 (U)
Steve M. Robbins <smr@debian.org>
nyquist
Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>
cairo-ocaml (U)
Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen@gmail.com>
ann (U)
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@minaslivre.org>
gsasl (U)
Tim Retout <diocles@debian.org>
enscript
Tomas Pospisek <tpo_deb@sourcepole.ch>
mailsync
Unit 193 <unit193@ubuntu.com>
icecast2 (U)
Uwe Hermann <uwe@debian.org>
openocd
Vincent Cheng <vcheng@debian.org>
conky
dbus-c++
Willi Mann <willi@debian.org>
squidview
YAEGASHI Takeshi <yaegashi@debian.org>
gauche (U)
Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
qwo
Ying-Chun Liu <grandpaul@gmail.com>
libshout (U)
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