Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > It seems that we are still not quite communicating. Each major OS has > independent package maintainers (often many tens of maintainers) who > usually have nothing to do with the original packge maintainer/developer > and are not in the habit of asking permission or making themselves > known. The package author can be dead and buried and they will still > function. A common task is to replace the autotools delivered with the > package with versions prescribed by the OS package maintenance team so > that all of the packages in the OS release are consistent. Often > various patches are applied in advance. > This common scenario should be considered whenever an autotools feature > is deprecated. Surely someone who does this for a package should be looking at the warnings produced by Autoconf and make appropriate updates to the package code at the same time. -- Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
