On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 10:53:15AM +0200, Ondrej Dubaj wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In the near future, there is a plan to merge autoconf-2.71 to rawhide. Due
> to the size of the change and possible breakage of multiple packages going
> FTBFS. The number of these packages should not be many, currently we have
> ~32 opened FTBFS trackers according to autoconf-2.71, where the majority of
> them are just ignored by maintainers [1]. This can also be a possibility to
> remove unnecessary packages from Fedora. After merging the change, there

Are any of these on the critical path (ie would cause composes to fail?)
I don't see any off hand, but if so, I would get those fixed before
landing if you can at all. Otherwise I would say land as soon as you
like.

> should be a mechanism for validating. From my perspective, it is effective
> to rebuild dependent packages (~1700 packages). After the rebuild, there
> should not be many FTBFS packages, but according to the change there will
> be some. There was enough time (~6 months) for the maintainers to prepare
> for this change.
> 
> If there are any concerns or other opinions about the steps after merging
> the change, please share your thoughts and we can discuss them here.

Thanks for all this work, it's appreciated. ;) 

> Thanks very much!
> 
> Regards,
> Ondrej

kevin
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> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1942967
> 
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 7:52 AM Ondrej Dubaj <odu...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello, according to the size of this change and the possible breakage of 
> > multiple packages before f35 mass rebuild, we decided (team working on this 
> > change) to postpone this change to early lifecycle of f36, where we will 
> > have enough time to resolve any problems until f36 mass rebuild.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 5:18 PM Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 05:28:07PM +0100, Ondrej Dubaj wrote:
> >> > Currently, we are trying to stay away from the compat package and with
> >> the
> >> > help of other package maintainers trying to fix the failures. We will
> >> give
> >> > time to react accordingly and see other possible steps in a few weeks
> >> time.
> >> >
> >> > Currently multiple FTBFS bugs in bugzilla were created according to
> >> > autoconf-2.71. More information available here:
> >> >
> >> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Autoconf_271
> >>
> >> Whats the current status of this Change?
> >>
> >> It didn't land before mass rebuild. Is it still planned for f35?
> >>
> >> kevin
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