On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-18 12:32]: > > some time ago) we may need to upgrade them all to libtool 1.5 or > > whatever. Not that we can do anything against that (keeping libtool 1.4 > > and any other version forever is obviously no option) but perhaps it > > would be good to file wishlist bugs at a certain point to update those > > packages (or preferably let upstream do it).
We should make libtool 1.5.6 and autoconf 2.5 (*required for libtool 1.5.6), as well as no usage of external autotools/libtool/autopoint (gettext) but always using the Debian packaged versions a release goal for etch. That will get a lot of people whose upstream still thinks they can get away with autoconf 2.13 and libtool/automake 1.4 forever pissed, but probably the only package we will have to tolerate violating that rule is gnucash (whose build system is something out of hell) and glibc/whatever (which we should not even bother with touching, since it is likely they have forked whatever they use a LONG time ago anyway). Use of Debian-packaged libtool, gettext and autoconf is likely to: 1. Fix a number of hidden bugs on trash that comes from upstream (and I do mean broken libtool and gettext libs, which might even have security issues in gettext's case -- although that is far-fetched). 2. Improve maintaibility of the packages by anyone doing QA work a great deal, since we will be able to regen the entire toolchain if we need to without expending about 4h trying to figure out what the hell is broken this time. 3. Get rid of a LOT of bitrot. What do you guys think? Should it be refined to the point of being a proposal to be posted to -devel? I know the libtool maintainer (which is also upstream) would certainly like the idea very much so, from talks at debconf 4. It appears some critical problems are to be found on libtool <<1.6 (1.5.6 in Debian). -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
