Hi Everyone, Well I'm hoping to get rid of automake1.5. It's buggy, unsupported upstream, and 1.6 and 1.7 can generally work with Makefile.am's written for 1.5. We already have automake1.4, automake1.5, automake1.6 and automake1.7. I'd like to get rid of automake1.5 before automake1.8 comes out.
"So what do I need to do", do you ask? Well I need to get all the packages that Build-Depend against automake1.5 to remove that dependency. I'm of the opinion that no package should build-depend on any automake package. They should run automake on the source tree and pack that with the .diff.gz. But if you still want to use automake in the build process, please make it work with automake1.7. Here is the list of offending packages (28): aalib apcupsd centericq classpath fluidsynth freefem gabber gnucash iiwusynth irda-utils jade krb4 libquicktime liece modlogan mysql-dfsg ogmtools pdns shadow tipptrainer wordnet wsoundserver xfmail xkbd xkeysw xmmsarts xt-aterm yank And here's a list of maintainers of those packages: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Julien LEMOINE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Leuner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eric Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Christophe Prud'homme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Norbert Veber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> James A. Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eric Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NOKUBI Takatsugu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Neil Roeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mikael Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gerd Knorr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OHASHI Akira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Othmar Pasteka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Marc Leeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Karl Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jeff Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Florian Hinzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Paul Hedderly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dima Barsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chris Boyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> julien LEMOINE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Othmar Pasteka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> So if you see your name there, you have some work to do :) Please feel free to contact me if you have any problems getting your Makefile.am's to work with newer automakes. I'll wait for a couple of weeks before filing bugs against any remaining packages that haven't make the transition. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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