On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 8:24 AM Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 24/09/20 at 16:41 -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > I'm managing the long-overdue release of Autoconf 2.70, we just put > > out a second beta and I am thinking that it would be interesting to do > > a Debian archive rebuild with it and see what breaks. I was advised > > to contact you. > > > > The release announcement is at > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2020-09/msg00006.html and > > What I would need is a custom autoconf package, either in Debian > experimental or in a private repo, that would act as a drop-in > replacement for the current autoconf package. I have prepared source and binary packages of the beta autoconf and uploaded them to my personal website. https://research.owlfolio.org/scratchpad/debian/ should work as an apt source line, and the packages should cleanly upgrade from autoconf in unstable. Please let me know if there are problems, it's been a long time since I needed to use apt-ftparchive. I believe that these packages would be suitable for experimental, and/or as a basis for the eventual upload of 2.70 to unstable, but I don't have the privileges to upload anything to the Debian archive. I'm cc:ing the Debian maintainer of autoconf -- Ben, if you would like to check and adopt my work, please feel free. zw
