On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 19:37 -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Scott James Remnant (scott@ubuntu.com) wrote: > > 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. > > The automaken | automake$VER is probably not wise. A new version of > automake may not be fully backwards compatible. If it were, we > wouldn't have these problems. Better to depend on a known version that > works, or better still don't build depend on it at all and ship the > generated files in the diff.gz. > I'd personally tend to err on the "assume it is, unless it isn't" -- would you suggest all packages be changed to not B-D on automaken then? > I'm going to get started on Saturday, and I'll be on IRC > (#debian-devel) so if you (or anyone) want to join in the fun, we can > coordinate there. I've just filed #376047 too, so any bugs filed > should be made to block that one. > The disadvantage of doing this for a living, rather than for fun, is that weekends tend to be out :) I'll pick up on Monday :p Scott -- Scott James Remnant scott@ubuntu.com
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