Hi Ben,
Ben Pfaff wrote:
> This package is really obsolete. It has several bug reports but the
> right thing to do is probably to get any packages that use autoconf2.13
> updated to use something else. (Or removed; they are antiques
> themselves.)
While I hoped that you are right, there seem at least two big blockers
on a first glance: Firefox and Thunderbird.
I tried to make a quick list of affected packages:
→ grep-dctrl -s Package -FBuild-Depends,Build-Depends-Indep,Build-Depends-Arch autoconf2.13 /var/lib/apt/lists/*Source* | fgrep Package | sort -u
Package: firefox
Package: firefox-esr
Package: gcc-3.3
Package: gcc-m68hc1x
Package: grass
Package: maxima
Package: mozjs52
Package: mozjs78
Package: postgis
Package: thunderbird
Package: vflib3
Package: xemacs21
And yeah, some packages in this list are really old. gcc-3.3 recently
has been orphaned for similar reasons: https://bugs.debian.org/966317
So I tried to figure out which versions of Firefox and Thunderbird
exactly are affected and it started to look less bad: