>>>>> On Mon, 05 May 2008 10:59:08 -0400, Brian Pepple <bpepple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: BP> PROPOSAL: I'd like to keep just the following packages and would like to BP> have release engineering to block the older packages from Rawhide: BP> autoconf-2.61-10.fc9.noarch.rpm BP> automake-1.10.1-2.noarch.rpm I don't think this is helpful to developers. Those packages aren't just used by Fedora packaging developers. They're used by anyone anywhere who needs to maintain a build system. Different software components require older versions of autoconf to successfully work on. Sad, but very true. I have multiple installations of autoconf in place and I use them all. Not because I want to, but because the base package I'm working on doesn't work with newer versions (this is particularly true from autoconf < 2.5 to anything > 2.5 and also true for 2.58 > 2.59 or beyond). Fixing a configure.in file to make it portable is often a ton of work for a big package. If it wasn't, XEmacs would have updated it's configure.in file from 2.13 to something more recent a long long time ago ;-) -- "In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find." -- Terry Pratchett -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
