> Well, in the sense that Eric's patch series before 2.66 was not intended > to stricten semantics, it is a regression. In the sense of saving the > innocent user of common setups where PACKAGE and VERSION _are_ reused in > places outside Autoconf (e.g., Automake) or even just outside of here- > douments, the unintended semantic change certainly was an improvement.
Exactly. I think it's not too bad to _document_ the change and apply this patch for 2.68 or 2.69 if we get many complaints (which I doubt we'll get). Paolo
