<ignore previous nonsense reply I accidentially did ctrl+enter instead of just enter> Brian Pepple wrote:
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 gets a big +1 from me
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: automake17 cegui-0.5.0b-7.fc9.src.rpm
Thats mine now a days, but I have no problem with fixing this.
They also should make sure if it is really necessary to run p.e. automake at all during the build process.
Yes, quite often when adding a simple -lfoo or something like that its quite easy to patch both the .ac / .am file as the generated files, which is often better as regenerating autoxxx generated files on old unmaintained .ac / .am files can often (silently) introduce all kind of interesting (new) bugs.
So its really much better to try and not regenerate autoxxx files during the build ever. There is a reason why these files are part of the tarbal and not regenerated automatically during a ./configure && make even when the tools to regenerate them are present.
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