* Scott James Remnant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 19:37 -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > * 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. > > > I'd personally tend to err on the "assume it is, unless it isn't" -- > would you suggest all packages be changed to not B-D on automaken then?
In my opinion this would be best practice. Some maintainers don't agree. > > 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. > > > The disadvantage of doing this for a living, rather than for fun, is > that weekends tend to be out :) I'll pick up on Monday :p You've lost your love of free software Scott :P No worries, hopefully on Monday you'll wake up to see a lot of progress. -- 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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