Re: Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

[Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>]

Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:

> Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Autoconf is pretty stable,
>
> This has not been the experience of many of us.  I haven't had a lot of
> trouble fixing things for newer releases of Autoconf, but I definitely
> have seen issues.  And the Autoconf 2.13 to 2.50 transition and all the
> subsequent instability was not that long ago.

Autoconf 2.50 was released in May 2001.  That's almost 7 years
ago now.  By free software release standards, I would not
consider that "not that long ago".
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Ben Pfaff 
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