* Scott James Remnant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 19:11 -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > Scott James Remnant dropped me an email recently, interested in > > improving the automake situation in Ubuntu and Debian[0]. > > > > [0] Their plan, which mirrors mine, is documented here: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutomakeTransition > > > If you could have another read through of that spec, now it's > post-draft, and make sure we're still both planning the same thing > that'd be great. I don't see any reason for Ubuntu to go a different > direction to Debian here. > > In particular I had a momentary thought about what packages should > actually depend/build-depend on now -- could you check that.
The automaken | automake$VER is probably not wise. A new version of automake may not be fully backwards compatible. If it were, we wouldn't have these problems. Better to depend on a known version that works, or better still don't build depend on it at all and ship the generated files in the diff.gz. > > Now before I can implement this master plan, I need to fix all the > > packages that still build depend on "automake"[1]. To proceed with > > this I'd like to file wishlist bugs (with patches) against these > > packages one week from today. One week after that, with the Release > > Team's blessing, I'd like to start NMUing as much of these packages as > > I can. Once that is complete, I'd like to make the transition and > > raise the severity of any of bugs that remain. > > > We should probably work together to cut the time down to make these > patches. I'm going to get started on Saturday, and I'll be on IRC (#debian-devel) so if you (or anyone) want to join in the fun, we can coordinate there. I've just filed #376047 too, so any bugs filed should be made to block that one. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6
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