> In fact, I realized that latter on, and changed that, but I suppose > the mere presence of Autoconf (now renamed Autom4te) on the CVS repo Actually, no you didn't - the problem is that it still has files in it (otherwise cvs update -dP would have pruned it). $ cd lib $ cvs update -d Autoconf cvs server: Updating Autoconf U Autoconf/.cvsignore U Autoconf/Makefile.am U Autoconf/Makefile.in U Autoconf/Struct.pm > is enough to be a problem. Could someone ask the subversion team to > completely get rid of lib/Autoconf/ please? As if it had never existed. That would probably be best.