Re: Packages which build-depend on libtool1.4
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> [050318 14:14]:
> We should make libtool 1.5.6 and autoconf 2.5 (*required for libtool 1.5.6),
> as well as no usage of external autotools/libtool/autopoint (gettext) but
> always using the Debian packaged versions a release goal for etch.
>
> That will get a lot of people whose upstream still thinks they can get away
> with autoconf 2.13 and libtool/automake 1.4 forever pissed, [...]
> [...]
> 3. Get rid of a LOT of bitrot.
>
> What do you guys think? Should it be refined to the point of being a
> proposal to be posted to -devel?
What about making all software compile with -W -Werror? Or even better:
Fix all buffer overflows in any software packaged in Debian? </sarkasm>
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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