Re: GNU Automake 1.14 released

2013-08-30 Thread Bert Wesarg
Hi, On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > We are pleased to announce the GNU Automake 1.14 minor release. > > > - The next major Automake version (2.0) will unconditionally activate > the 'subdir-objects' option. In order to smooth out the transition, > we now giv

Re: GNU Automake 1.14 released

2013-08-21 Thread Eric Dorland
* Stefano Lattarini (stefano.lattar...@gmail.com) wrote: > [Re-adding the list, sorry for the confusion] > > On 08/12/2013 06:16 AM, Eric Dorland wrote: > > * Stefano Lattarini (stefano.lattar...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> Hi everybody. > > > > (You didn't reply to the list, did you mean that?) > > >

Re: GNU Automake 1.14 released

2013-08-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
[Re-adding the list, sorry for the confusion] On 08/12/2013 06:16 AM, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini (stefano.lattar...@gmail.com) wrote: >> Hi everybody. > > (You didn't reply to the list, did you mean that?) > No, thanks for noticing. I'm re-adding the list. >> Sorry for the delay,

Re: GNU Automake 1.14 released

2013-08-08 Thread Eric Dorland
* Dan Kegel (d...@kegel.com) wrote: > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Eric Dorland wrote: > >> That sounds kind of risky, promises of compatibility notwithstanding. > > > > Can you elaborate why? > > No. I'm just being paranoid. But there is good precedent for > paranoia being the right setting

Re: GNU Automake 1.14 released

2013-08-08 Thread Dan Kegel
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Eric Dorland wrote: >> That sounds kind of risky, promises of compatibility notwithstanding. > > Can you elaborate why? No. I'm just being paranoid. But there is good precedent for paranoia being the right setting in matters of backwards compatibility. > If the

Re: GNU Automake 1.14 released

2013-08-08 Thread Eric Dorland
* Dan Kegel (d...@kegel.com) wrote: > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Eric Dorland wrote: > > Previously I would upgrade the automake package to the latest version > > and add a new binary package for the previous version. So, for > > example, if automake was at version 1.10 and 1.11 was released

Re: GNU Automake 1.14 released

2013-08-08 Thread Dan Kegel
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Eric Dorland wrote: > Previously I would upgrade the automake package to the latest version > and add a new binary package for the previous version. So, for > example, if automake was at version 1.10 and 1.11 was released > upstream I would update the automake packa

Re: GNU Automake 1.14 released

2013-08-08 Thread Eric Dorland
* Eric Dorland (e...@debian.org) wrote: > Hi Stefano, > > I was just getting around to packaging this for Debian and I have a > question. Given the new versioning scheme shouldn't the APIVERSION (as > defined in configure.ac) be 1.13 and not 1.14? Or more precisely, does > it make sense for the bi

Re: GNU Automake 1.14 released

2013-07-27 Thread NightStrike
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > We are pleased to announce the GNU Automake 1.14 minor release. > > This release comes with two important changes: > > 1. It introduces a new feature aimed at making the implementation > of non-recursive build systems more convenie

Re: GNU Automake 1.14 released

2013-07-27 Thread Eric Dorland
Hi Stefano, I was just getting around to packaging this for Debian and I have a question. Given the new versioning scheme shouldn't the APIVERSION (as defined in configure.ac) be 1.13 and not 1.14? Or more precisely, does it make sense for the binary to be renamed given that this release should ha