"R.I.P. Deaddog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2003-06-05(Thu) 23:27:54 +0200, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: > > Eventually we came to the following conclusion: > > - removing "Provides: automake" from automake1.7 (my preference) was not > > prefered; > > In my not so humble opinion, no package should ever require automake > without indicating the version. In current way "foobar: BuildRequires > automake" is just asking for trouble. Packagers are freely asking > other versions of automake to overwrite the stock files in tarball. (And > the version is dependent on which machine the package is built -- say, > automake1.7 in machine A, automake1.6 in B, automake1.4 in C)
I strongly disagree. Packages with simple Makefile.am files for example don't need any strict require on any automake version. Any version should do the job. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
