Re: [libgpiod][PATCH 00/14] treewide: start shaving off cruft for v2.0

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 03:33:41PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 3:30 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 09:38:44AM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 2:55 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > > <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 02:23:01PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:

...

> > > > One side note, though. Are you already plan to support autotools-2.70?
> > >
> > > Isn't it already supported? 2.69 is the minimum version, 2.70 should just work.
> >
> > Have you read an article on LWN about changes [1]? There are a lot of
> > incompatibilities (note between 2.69 and 2.70 _8_ years passed).
> >
> > [1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/839395/
> 
> How will distros handle the incompatibilities? I don't think all
> projects - many no longer even supported - will suddenly switch to new
> autoconf.

It's PITA for distributions. Last time I remember that nice jump from 2.13 to 2.50.
However, 2.69 should be closer to 2.70. I believe the distributions will patch
all broken packages one-by-one. I think there is no need to keep two autoconf
packages together in this case, but who knows, it might be a last resort.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko