Hello! I've seen an announcement in autotools-announce@xxxxxxx that Automake 1.7.9 has been released with Autoconf 2.59. I thought it was a typo because Autoconf 2.59 has never been announced in the same list. Indeed, I checked NEW in CVS Autoconf, it mentions the 2.59 release on the same day as Autoconf 2.58 - November 4, 2003. However, ftp.gnu.org has only version 2.58. Debian unstable also uses version 2.58. I decided to check the mailing list. (I'm very sorry, but I had to disable mailing list traffic for some mailing lists I was subscribed to, including autoconf lists, because I could not participate in too many projects in the same time.) I don't normally trust gnu.org pages full of outdated "invariant sections", but the project page on savannah.gnu.org <https://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=autoconf> points to the same list archives: http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/ What I see is that half of traffic is spam and that neither Autoconf 2.58 nor Autoconf 2.59 have been announced there. However, the Autoconf 2.58 announcement is in the autoconf-maintainers archives. What happened to the project and to the mailing lists? I'm ready to become a moderator of the autoconf list. It appears that the traffic is not very heavy. Besides, I have a Spamcop subscription, so I can reroute spam to my account and report it. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin
