On Tuesday 2013-05-21 07:33, Pavel Raiskup wrote: >> Works for me. But we [distros] do want to mandate autoreconf anyway in the >> general case: it is the *only* way to keep upstream honest about the much >> hated build system not bitrotting until it decides to blow up right when we >> need it for a security update. > >I know. But there is a lot of tarballs not able to be easily >autoreconf-ed (more than 10 years old) and not having upstream.. and it >needs a lot of changes downstream before autoreconf successes.. (and you >need to have a quite good knowledge about auto-toolset). If upstream is dead, the distros should perhaps reevaluate whether to drop the package or de facto become upstream by a process of adoption. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
