On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 19:11 -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > Scott James Remnant dropped me an email recently, interested in > improving the automake situation in Ubuntu and Debian[0]. > > [0] Their plan, which mirrors mine, is documented here: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutomakeTransition > If you could have another read through of that spec, now it's post-draft, and make sure we're still both planning the same thing that'd be great. I don't see any reason for Ubuntu to go a different direction to Debian here. In particular I had a momentary thought about what packages should actually depend/build-depend on now -- could you check that. > Now before I can implement this master plan, I need to fix all the > packages that still build depend on "automake"[1]. To proceed with > this I'd like to file wishlist bugs (with patches) against these > packages one week from today. One week after that, with the Release > Team's blessing, I'd like to start NMUing as much of these packages as > I can. Once that is complete, I'd like to make the transition and > raise the severity of any of bugs that remain. > We should probably work together to cut the time down to make these patches. Scott -- Scott James Remnant scott@ubuntu.com
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