Eventually we came to the following conclusion:In my not so humble opinion, no package should ever require automake
- removing "Provides: automake" from automake1.7 (my preference) was
not prefered;
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 would like automake-1.4 to be renamed to automake1.4. This would make this possible.
Don't mess with this naming thing pls. automake && autoconf m4 aclocal checking in autogen.sh files to generate configure scripts can fsck a source package really bad.
PLSPLS I urge not to change the naming .
I was just refering to renaming the package, not it's contents.
Does this take any worries away?
Stefan
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
