> I would disagree. That would make migration to a new automake a royal PITA. Out > of the 220 packages I'm watching, only 2 broke. Can you imagine the amount of That's pretty good for an autoconf update. > They are versioned because the maintainers haven't made the adjustments to use > the newest automake. I use the word maintainers in a broad sense. Both upstream > and within the community. I have made such adjustments to the packages that I'm > maintaining so that I could jettison those obsolete versions. Its not that hard > to migrate the packages. You just need the will to do it. I'll feed some of those > patches to Alan. These autofoo* instabilities are crazy and I hope these tools get better over time. I also think we should have rebuild tests ongoing that point at failing rpm packages. greetings, Florian La Roche
