Most packages in Debian that run autoreconf currently build-depend directly or indirectly on automake (version 1.14.1 in jessie, released 2013; version 1.15 in stretch/sid, released in 2015). However, 58 packages in sid still build with automake1.11, released in 2009. This doesn't seem desirable for buster.
I am *not* planning to report these bugs as RC, unless the release team or the automake1.11 maintainer want to remove automake1.11 from buster entirely (if so, please let me know). Most of the packages that I've glanced at so far seem to have moved from an ancient version (often automake1.4 or automake1.9) to 1.11. In the past, Automake had a tendency to break compatibility between minor releases, making it desirable to lock the build system to the specific version that upstream used. However, recent versions have been queueing up incompatible changes for 2.0 instead (as described in the Automake 1.14 release notes, <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2013-06/msg00009.html>) so maybe many of these packages can track 1.x indefinitely? A dd-list follows, generated by: grep-dctrl -FBuild-Depends,Build-Depends-Arch,Build-Depends-Indep \ automake1.11 \ /var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_*_source_Sources \ | dd-list --dctrl Nothing seems to have a runtime dependency on automake1.11, at least not on amd64 or i386. A couple of these packages build-depend on automake (>= 1.11) | automake1.11, but to be honest they'd probably be better off with just automake (>= 1.11) anyway, so I haven't filtered those out. Regards, S ---- dd-list of affected packages ---- Adrian Knoth <[email protected]> jack-audio-connection-kit (U) Andrew Lee (李健秋) <[email protected]> scim-chewing (U) Andy Spencer <[email protected]> aweather (U) Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[email protected]> libnfsidmap Barry deFreese <[email protected]> qonk (U) Ben Armstrong <[email protected]> xpilot-ng Bill Allombert <[email protected]> libjpeg6b libjpeg8 ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) <[email protected]> scim-chewing (U) Christoph Egger <[email protected]> warzone2100 (U) Chrysostomos Nanakos <[email protected]> tcpstat Chuan-kai Lin <[email protected]> fam Clément Stenac <[email protected]> madplay (U) Debian Accessibility Team <[email protected]> svox Debian Games Team <[email protected]> qonk warzone2100 Debian Gauche Maintainers <[email protected]> gauche Debian GCC Maintainers <[email protected]> cloog-ppl Debian Med Packaging Team <[email protected]> trinityrnaseq Debian Multimedia Maintainers <[email protected]> icecast2 jack-audio-connection-kit libshout pd-iemmatrix unicap Debian OCaml Maintainers <[email protected]> cairo-ocaml Debian PHP Maintainers <[email protected]> php7.0 php7.1 Debian Printing Team <[email protected]> ijs Debian QA Group <[email protected]> agg aumix Debian Science Maintainers <[email protected]> ann aweather lhapdf Debian Science Team <[email protected]> freefem3d Debian XMPP Maintainers <[email protected]> gsasl Emanuele Rocca <[email protected]> urlview Florian Maier <[email protected]> smartmontools (U) Free Ekanayaka <[email protected]> jack-audio-connection-kit (U) Giacomo Catenazzi <[email protected]> g15mpd libg15render Giulio Paci <[email protected]> basilisk2 (U) Giuseppe Iuculano <[email protected]> smartmontools Guillaume Pellerin <[email protected]> icecast2 (U) libshout (U) Hakan Ardo <[email protected]> avr-libc gcc-avr HIGUCHI Daisuke (VDR dai) <[email protected]> uim IME Packaging Team <[email protected]> scim-chewing IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) <[email protected]> pd-iemmatrix (U) Jens Thiele <[email protected]> gauche (U) Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> basilisk2 cstream icecast2 (U) ijs (U) jack-audio-connection-kit (U) kannel-sqlbox libshout (U) pd-iemmatrix (U) unicap (U) Jonathan Dowland <[email protected]> smartmontools (U) Jordà Polo <[email protected]> exult Jorge Salamero Sanz <[email protected]> gsasl (U) Jose Luis Tallon <[email protected]> libsieve Junichi Uekawa <[email protected]> jack-audio-connection-kit (U) Jérémy Lal <[email protected]> basilisk2 (U) Kiwamu Okabe <[email protected]> uim (U) Kurt Roeckx <[email protected]> madplay (U) Lifeng Sun <[email protected]> lhapdf (U) Lior Kaplan <[email protected]> php7.0 (U) php7.1 (U) Luca Bruno <[email protected]> openocd (U) Mad Maintainers <[email protected]> madplay Martín Ferrari <[email protected]> qonk (U) Marvin Stark <[email protected]> syrep Mathieu Parent <[email protected]> svox (U) Matthias Klose <[email protected]> cloog-ppl (U) Michael Banck <[email protected]> exult (U) Michael R. 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