On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 10:59 -0400, 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 +1 This step is way over due. It also will teach maintainers not run the autotools while building. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
