At 2024-04-11T15:37:46+0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 10:26:55AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > Or, because some upstream maintainers have learned through, long, > > bitter experience that newer versions of autoconf tools may result > > in the generated configure script to be busted (sometimmes subtly), > > and so distrust relying on blind autoreconf always working. > > When was the last time this actually happened to you? I certainly > remember it being a problem in the early 2.5x days, but it's been well > over a decade since this actually bit me.
A darkly amusing story of this frustration can be found under "Why patch?" at <https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/autoconf.html>. For my part, I have come to associate the name "Akim Demaille" with the advisability of extreme caution when adopting a release of new software. Possibly I should be making that association with someone else, though. Regards, Branden
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