I received the following proposal from Karsten Hopp, which he would like FESCo to make a decision on during this week's meeting (2008-05-08). I'm forwarding it to the list, so that people can weigh-in on it. --- We are currently shipping an insane number of compatibility autofoo packages which haven't seen any upstream maintenance for many years: autoconf213-2.13-18.fc8.noarch.rpm (9 years) automake14-1.4p6-15.fc7.noarch.rpm (6 years) automake15-1.5-23.noarch.rpm (7 years) automake16-1.6.3-14.noarch.rpm (6 years) automake17-1.7.9-11.noarch.rpm (4 1/2 years) PROPOSAL: I'd like to keep just the following packages and would like to have release engineering to block the older packages from Rawhide: autoconf-2.61-10.fc9.noarch.rpm automake-1.10.1-2.noarch.rpm This is the complete list of rawhide packages requiring those ancient autofoo packages, it is rather short and it should be doable to convert those packages to current autofoo: automake14 ax25-apps-0.0.6-2.fc9.src.rpm automake14 gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-36.fc9.src.rpm automake14 glib-1.2.10-29.fc9.src.rpm automake14 gtk+-1.2.10-61.fc9.src.rpm automake14 sgml-common-0.6.3-23.fc9.src.rpm automake14 WindowMaker-0.92.0-17.fc9.src.rpm automake15 nss_db-2.2-40.fc9.src.rpm automake16 kyum-0.7.5-11.fc9.src.rpm automake16 qalculate-kde-0.9.6-5.fc9.src.rpm automake16 sinjdoc-0.5-6.fc9.src.rpm automake17 cegui-0.5.0b-7.fc9.src.rpm automake17 ekg2-0.1.1-4.fc9.src.rpm automake17 gtk2-2.12.9-5.fc9.src.rpm automake17 nautilus-open-terminal-0.9-2.fc9.src.rpm autoconf213 esc-1.0.1-9.fc9.src.rpm autoconf213 glib-1.2.10-29.fc9.src.rpm autoconf213 gtk+-1.2.10-61.fc9.src.rpm autoconf213 pam_smb-1.1.7-8.2.2.src.rpm autoconf213 xdvik-22.84.13-17.fc9.src.rpm Maintainers are encouraged to switch to more recent releases of the autoconf tools and/or work with upstream to get this done. They also should make sure if it is really necessary to run p.e. automake at all during the build process. Later, /B -- Brian Pepple <bpepple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BrianPepple gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 810CC15E BD5E 6F9E 8688 E668 8F5B CBDE 326A E936 810C C15E
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